ORIGINAL: bigedmustafa
ORIGINAL: chopper man
I've haven't gone through the entire thread but I saw talk about the RDS8000. Thinking about picking one up for my brother. Hobby People has it with one receiver for 149 and Tower has it with 2 receivers for 229. I have a Futaba so I don't know anything about Airtronics. My brother wouldn't be looking at doning anything fansy just 2.4 and a basicly a good radio. He lives out in the country and we are going to be putting in our own flying field. Is it worth the money. Thanks for your thoughts.
chopper
RC Ken did a pretty exhaustive review of the RDS8000 here for RCU:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/magazine/a...article_id=995
I have two of them. I bought a second RDS8000 to use as a buddy box/backup transmitter and to get two extra receivers. Don't let the price fool you, the RDS8000 has a lot of advanced mixing and programming capabilities. It's easy to use and program right out of the box, but your brother will be able to continue to grow with it and use it even if he moves up to fairly advanced models.
I had a nice Airtronics surface radio that I liked very well back in the 90's, and a friend of mine has their uber fancy M8 surface radio and its also very nice. Airtronics is as good a brand as any, and for $229, 8ch and 2rx for the price of a 6ch and 1rx in the other two brands its definitely worth the money. I wish they had that deal going when I got started back in August. I think a new rx is $80 so that's in the middle of the price range for additional 2.4 rx's.