The 9Z is an excellent radio. I agree I would love to have that 10th channel but I can live without it. The features that stand out on the 9Z over the 10X are the following. 1. Synthesized receivers/transmitters. You can program any channel on the 72mhz band that you want. People have said well why would you want that and my response is have you ever been to an event where there are 4 or 5 other people on your channel? 2. Is that any switch can be assigned to any function. I had a friend with a 10X who broke his retract switch and could not fly for 10 days because he had to send it in for repair. With the 9Z you can reassign your retract function to another switch and continue to fly until it is convenient for you to send it in for repair. I know someone will chime in and say "Well just use a pmix on the 10X and you can do the same thing". My response is that why should you have to use one of your PMIX's to accomplish this and if you have used all of your PMIXES you are screwed.


Patrick.