ORIGINAL: deli_conker
My advice is to buy something cheap knowing that you'll either like it (although not be good at) and have to count it as a loss when you upgrade to something good OR if you can't get into it and it only sounded like a cool thing to do, you can be glad that you didn't sink any major money into it.
This is the route I'd really like to take, but the path is unclear. Should I be looking for a hummingbird on ebay? Is there another cheap, get-the-idea-but-probably-want-to-upgrade option? While I hear the dragonfly is crap, it doesn't seem like a bad throw-away introduction.
There's also the part of me that wants to go out and buy a nice higher end transmiitter [to grow on]. sim cable [to practice with], and then figure out a model to build.