Cees,

A long way to go?? Let me humbly disagree with you a little on that.

Granted, I tend to approach my RC model hobby as Airplanes guided by a Black Box with sticks on it. I mess with the airplanes, not the radios. If I look at the guts and capabilities of my JR12x, and consider that I don't have the slightest idea of how it works, I might say that I have a long way to go with respect to modern equipment. But going back and winding some coils to make a tone transmitter, etc. to recreate something from the dark ages isn't much of a step forward I think.

I find there is so much to do with models using the terrific modern equipment that there isn't time to do more than think about the old equipment. I do enjoy looking at the Equipment Museum and reliving the old memories of those days, but, a lot of those memories are of crashes due to the flaws in the equipment. I never had much of a fleet of airplanes in the good old days due to crashes due to equipment failure. Now there are over 50 models of all sizes in the garage - all fly flawlessly due to modern equipment. I love it.


Good flying,

Ben