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Old 11-24-2013 | 06:25 AM
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Thank you Rob and that very much appreciated

Another of my nostalgia projects is in progress now and its a biggie to me. That old Orbit above which I purchased in 1970 is AM and that was what facultated the actual conversion to 2.4 where the Hitec module replaces the orginal RF output section in the Orbit.

Now I am not a electronics type so this work was done for me by kid I started mentoring here I think when he was around ten. He later went on to Embry Riddle and is now an avionics designer for an avionics firm and government contractor. Yes I am proud of both he and his sister who both even earned ama scholorships when they went off to school.

Anyway the conversion of the Orbit was actually pretty simple with the use of a scope but this ongoing project is not so simple. That is a Futaba nine channel PCM single stick that I purchased in 1994. It is a PCM only radio which is what makes simple bypass of the RF section that was done with the Orbit impractical. Oh man what to do? I really wanted to use this radio once agine a nostalgia project but as 2.4. Well the kid took on the project about a year ago of gutting the single stick and replacing it entirely with the internals of one of my old Hitec Prism 7X's . The difficult project is about half way complete now that's exciting for me to use this old single stick agine.

Now I have a question, Yes I know that there have been four recognized modes over time but I have never heard of any mode assigned to single stick radios. So can anyone shed any light on was single stick over covered by a mode or always just simply single stick?

John