RE: help! which radio to buy? 8fg or 8j.
About 8 months ago, I was ready to retire my 15 year old Futaba Super 8, it was a great radio but was time to move on. I started looking at all the different makes and models. I had seen way too many Spektrum crashes so that was not on my list. Came across the 8J when it first came out and it got my attention right away. $239 with coupon from Tower with 2 rx's, and very important to me was that I could get the Futaba 6 channel FHSS rx's for $35 shipped, about 1/2 the cost of Fasst rx's. I generally keep about 15 + planes RTF so rx cost is a big factor. The tx had everything I needed and then some, 20 model memory, backlight display, all the normal programing and no external antenna. I have been using and flying the 8J a lot in the last few month, never any kind of problem. I fly mainly glow, but have 5 or 6 nice electric also, see some pics below -