Guys...

Japan's 'mode' preference is the reverse of ours. I guess its another of those northern/southern hemisphere reversal hings, eh?

For switching between Mode One and Two, most lower-end or suface radios don't have a switch, as it was meant for aircraft models to swap funcions according to flier preference. Check out the Futaba SkySport manual for more data.

For the 4VWD and 4VF, you have to swap the modes by swapping the channels manually. It has NOTHING to do with the DMD, and when setting up the DMD for stick throws, you can push them in ANY sequence. All the DMD is looking or is the throw limits... ie. what it is to interpret as 100% stick throw.

Thats how Willy's '80% throw cheat' works: the DM thinks 80% stick is actually 100%, and when you use 100% stick, the DMD thinks the trim has been toggled. But many of us are just going the fancy route and adding the gun triggers, so this is irrelevant.

Be nice if Futaba would sell a 'Tamiya Tank Trigger' package... thn again, if we got our wishes, we'd have a few more tank models out now, eh?