Originally Posted by
OliverJacob
My 2 cents, the old radio may work fine, but you just don't know if there is any internal corrosion, potentiometers on the gimbals may just fail at some point, or they may last forever. Same thing with the servo pots.
Newer radios are so much safer to use, interference and frequency monitoring is a thing of the past. And even entry level radios have a lot of functions, imo they are well worth their money.
The first part of your post I agree with so that's why I recommend sending in an older radio to be checked out before using it if it's been sitting for a while. I totally disagree that new radios are safer. When you take into account that new stuff is mostly machine soldered using parts that their source is unknown, how can you assume it's safer? That's like saying a car built four years ago is safer than one built ten years ago because of when it was built. Now, look at what's happened to cars built four years ago. Air bags have been found to be dangerous at best, deadly at worst due to the company making them. How do we know the parts going into our transmitters are any better than they were in the past?