RE: Recommend a Tx battery
I second Radical RC.
FWIW, NiCd batteries have a longer lifetime and are less expensive than NiMH. If you don't need the extra capacity that NiMH packs offer, I recommend you use NiCd packs. Typically I only get in about an hour of flying per field visit, so I get by with the plain vanilla 700 mAh NiCd packs.