Yup I agree.

It's hard to fathom spending money for a more expensive 7ch or greater radio, but it would be the best advice anyone gives to you.

Novices typically purchase low end radios, then find they need a different one for their second and third planes, so slowly an inexorably they keep purchasing more expensive radios as time goes on... ending up with a bunch of TX's that are not very good in the process.

Take 1/3 of those funds and put it into a GOOD multi-channel TX, and you'll end up with something that will not only take you through many different planes, but if you elect to do so, you can easily sell later.... and during the interim, you would have used a much higher quality component.

This advices is often given to newbies, and just as often, it goes unheeded.