I'm gonna say something here that is a little off the norm these days. Why do you have to have all of your planes on one radio?? I have 3 different computer radios with 2 planes on each, and I also have 4 other non-computer radios. All are on different channels. There is nothing wrong with taking more than one radio to the field. I know that in this day and age people like to have all of their planes on one radio, but I don't buy that thinking. What if you are sharing a frequency with someone else? With radios on different channels you can fly something else until the first channel is clear. What if you have to send your radio in for service? You still have the other radios to fly on.

Do all of your planes need 6 channels? Probably not. Use the 4 channel radios for the planes that don't need the extra channels.

If it helps any, the plane that I have flown the most this year has an Airtronics 6 channel Vanguard (non-computer) radio on it. And I have 106 flights (approx. 11 minutes/flight) on it since March. It only needs 4 channels and nothing special (Balsa USA Thunderbug). I save my computer radios for planes that need a little extra in the way of the radio, Sig Hog Bipe, Great Planes Slow Poke, and my Sig Something Extra, all of which need a little extra mixing or flaperons.

My thinking would be that I would rather fly with 2 radios than sit and wait trying to get all my planes on one radio. I know that this is a little off the current thinking these days, but it works for me and has for 9 years now.

Hope this helps

Ken