I think what people are trying to tell you is that these are very desirable items that you should sell on Ebay and then use a small portion of that money to purchase something more modern with a little better reliability.

The collectors like to have the stuff not screwed up by use.

The gold stickers were put on the radios prior to 1991. So if the radios we updated to 1991 standards they were obviously built before that and probably long before....I know that most of the current manufacturers were selling 1991 compliant equipment back as far as about 1987-1988.

The radio equipment of today is head and shoulders above those systems in terms of reliability, features and repair capability. Single Stick radio boxes are extremely high demand items as there are some old guys (just joking about that word old) that still fly Single stick and there are not any products manufactured for them. So if you learn to fly single stick eventually you will need to go to a modern radio anyway.


Look at this way. Say the radios were built early 80's which is likely. They are over 25 years old now. The reliability of electronics and the improvements of today are so much better than these older systems. Not knocking the Kraft radios they were among the best made back then.

Another look is are you using a TRS 80 or Commodore 64 to read these forums? Would you consider using one of these systems to surf the Internet on say a 1200buad modem.

If not then why would you risk your new model to something that in 1983 was state of the art but you can get a really reliable system today that has way more features, capability and solid connection to the model than those systems in question. The servos are about 400times better and more accurate than those were as well. They are also better in the conditions (vibration), smaller and lighter

By the way I have a Kraft Signature series radio in my collection of goodies as well. I would not sell it at this time however you won't find me sticking it a model either. The basic $200 radio system today is Pentium 4 system compared to the TRS80 of the past.


Troy Newman
Team JR