A name brand would be good to people that can afford it. But for me when I got back into flying this year. I went with cheap. I bought a 6 channel FlySky FS-I6 Radio, Rx 2.4 GHz for 55.00 new from hobby parts and I have had no problems with it. I fly sailplanes and got some great thermal height out of it this season. And that is on the park flyer rx that comes with it. This winter I will be ordering the i6b rx's which is the full range rx >500 meters.

I have a Airtronics RD-6000 72 MHz radio. But I wanted something newer.