Let me ask you sir? what would you do if your field came under direct attack by a few hoodlums that had an extreme chip on their shoulder who set up camp at your gate in the open desert and said to hell with frequency control, to hell with AMA and to hell with any club!

The prime perpetrator gathered up any old stuff he could scrabble together and peddled it to unsuspecting newbys at the local highway swap meet just a mile away with wonderful promises of what he was gonna do for them at the free flying site. Ya sure and were left trying to pick up the pieces for the poor victims and indeed victims is exactly what they were.

There were many cases of shoot downs but of course since they were free spirts we had no recourse Finally in order to prevent compete range wars I was able to convince the club to simply commit to a complete changeover to 2.4 most of us were already there anyway and in order to dry up the source of supply to these 'gentleman' we had club trashing partys of all the old Vanguards and Conquests .
Well guess what their source dried up and they moved on our field was saved from eminent shut down. However we continue to recommend 2.4 only at the field and most of our club are thankfull that all those old 72's were destroyed in this area. And agine I am not talking about collector items and yes I have a substancial collection of such as well as some treasured nine channel single sticks on PCM however these will never ever be seen in the local highway swap meet or into the hands of people like that agine.

Now back to the L8cruzer it would be a major financial mistake to not now embrace 2.4 while you still can economically and what I always tell all my new folks who care to listen as fresh start new folks it is also important to buy the most capable modern radio system you can. And like I posted above I prefer Hitec and specifically the Hitec Eclipse Pro. Not the most expensive and not the cheapest but an ideal starting point.

John