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Old 09-27-2005 | 09:53 AM
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My Instructor Jerry has a JR and Aitronics radio and mine is a Hitec 4-channel Laser 4 radio
Would any trainer cord would is radio master and mine a slave radio?

If any one you guys have an answers
because I got to train to fly my plane.....
Old 09-27-2005 | 09:59 AM
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I seriously doubt JR, Airtonics, and Hitec are at all compatible.

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Rats!
How I'm going to train to fly?
DARN IT!
I NEED HELP HERE..
Old 09-27-2005 | 11:05 AM
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That is simple. Buy a used Hitec or Futaba transmitter. You can usually get them for about $15 without a battery. Use it as a buddy box.
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HE'll have to be the one to get, LOL
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Avistar,
A lot of instructors will have buddy boxes for the major brands of radios out there, as well as the cords needed to connect them. Check with your instructor, and the club as well, to see if they already have them. If they don't have them it's going to be your responsibility to get the buddy box and cord.

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i have never used a buddy chord but have always wondered,do both radios have to be the same channel?
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HE'll have to be the one to get, LOL
I don't know how you figure that the instructor will need to buy a buddy box. YOU are the one who wants to learn and came to the field with an incompatible radio. If you were my student (and I am an instructor) you would be sitting there a long time watching me fly.
Suck it up, get on EBAY and find a cheap buddy box.
I hope you can work this out.

Hope I didn't come off too harsh.
Perhaps your instructor could borrow a Futaba radio. Then you could use this cord to train:
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXN740&P=0
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tr21triton,
No. In fact, on all of the buddy boxes that I have I pull the crystal out of it. The channel is determined by the master radio.

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ORIGINAL: tr21triton

i have never used a buddy chord but have always wondered,do both radios have to be the same channel?
No tr21triton - they don't even require functioning RF sections. Some models require batteries but most do not. Also in most cases (perhaps all) the buddy box power switch is also not turned on. Power that may be required comes from the master radio in most cases. Some buddy boxes consist of nothing more than the control sticks and the cord jack.
Old 09-27-2005 | 04:46 PM
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o.k. thanks y'all my brother had told me yes.cant wait to tell him he's WRONG.
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OH MY GOD! HE GOING TO TEACH ME THE HARD WAY.
WITH OUT THE BUDDY BOX[X(][X(][X(]
SAY A PRAYER FOR EVERYONE
Old 09-27-2005 | 07:59 PM
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No harder for you. It's MUCH harder for him to get control after you snap the radio back to him and yell "TAKE IT!"

You've still got the easy part.

Good luck to both of you.
Old 09-27-2005 | 08:06 PM
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OH GEZZZ
Well you got to learn sooner or later.
PLEASE EVERYONE SAY A PRAYER FOR ME!
Old 09-27-2005 | 10:01 PM
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most clubs/instructors have buddy boxes,i had two radios already and and bought a trainer cord.after i learned to fly i gave the trainer cord to the instructor for the club,figured they might have more use than i did
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why dont u post this in the radio form?

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