opjose, your points about buddy boxing, help have never been a problem for me. I fly Aitronics and there was no one there who even liked Airtronics so I was alone either way I went With most people having smart phones or Internet capable devices, your car, tablet, phone, watch, or what have you. You can always find help even if the people at the field can not help.

I found the programming of the 9x to be different. Once I figured out how they laid out the menu structure, it was easy. It was, to me, no different then learning how to program a friends Dx6i. Once you go through the menu's a bit, you start to remember where stuff is. For an $80.00 radio. It has features galore. If you use the smartie parts board and flash the firmware, it is mind blowing. Stored 16 model memory, yet is unlimited due to the fact you plug it into your computer. Mix any channel with any channel or multi channel's.

The reliability question always comes up. Look at all of the brown out issues with spectrum and Futaba Rx's over heating. Getting a name brand does not mean problem free. Every brand I have ever owned has had an issue with something they made at one time or another.

So if you bought the 9x, with (7) 6 channel rx's, you would spend less then any other radio out there. You can get the radio and the 7 Rx's for just under $160.00.

Any of the computer radios will have a learning curve to figure out. JR, Futaba, Airtronics, 9x, DEVO 12 and so on.


DEVO12
http://hobby-wing.com/walkera-devo-12-ch-radio-set.html

Buzz.