Originally Posted by
geezeraviation
What Thomas said, just think what you figure your Snipe is worth, not just the pieces but your investment in time (blood sweat tears) and your love for the aircraft. Get a new radio, either one of theirs that wont have this problem or some other Mfr. Id retire all Xmitters of that type TODAY. Never to be used again, put them in the bin, don't sell your troubles to someone else (trade in is ok) or keep them around for old times sake, they wont heal and repairs are obviously temporary. Your smart, you know the odds are never in your favor.
Doc
My plan at the moment is to upgrade to the SD-10GS with their trade-in program. The reduced price will be $279. It is perhaps no surprise that this is exactly the price of a new Futaba 8JA (from Tower). With the SD-10GS I can continue to use my four Airtronics Rx units. I find I never have more than four intact models at any given time so that number should hold me for years to come. If I bought the Futaba 8JA, I'd have one Futaba receiver and would have to spend another $100 at least on a new set.
I won't fly the Snipe, the SE5a, the big Paulistinha P56, or my CI (whenever that gets finished) with a RDS8000. This is a known problem and it's bitten me 2 out of 3 times. I did fly my cheap-o ARF today on my remaining RDS8000 but even if I don't care about losing the ARF, losing control of a flying model is never a good thing. I'll use it with the ARF until I can get a new radio in March, then I will retire it for shop uses.