Tx buddy cable
 

Do all transmitters have a provision for a cable to couple to another transmitter for training purposes?

If not, what is necessary to make that provision?

RE: Tx buddy cable
 

Not all radios have this function. Most of the very high end radios do not. Many of the least expensive radios do not have it, as well.

To take advantage of this function, both of the radios to be interconnected must be by the same maker. Preferably of the same type. Always check that the cable port on both radios is the same. Generally, radios of two different brands are not compatable. Either the design of the cable port, or the way the radio sends and receives signals will be different from another brand names' product.

It would cost more to retrofit a radio with this function than it would to buy a new one with this function already a part of the radio.

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Usually Hitec and Futaba are compatable.
THe round cable is about the same.
The new square cable on futaba radios is different.

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ive conected a futaba 6ch with a hitec 4ch and no problem, i think if the radio have the trainer button and the cable can plug on each other it works

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Thanks for your input guys. I appreciate it.

JF

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funny, my Eclipse 7 won't buddy box with a Skysport 4

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When you buddy box a Hitec and a Futaba, be sure to use the Hitec trainer cord and have it plugged in properly, there is a master and a slave end, both well marked. If you do not, the slave transmitter may transmit as well as the master unless you remove the crystal and battery from the slave.

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This is not a reply but a question for Japanflyer. I lived in Japan for 4 years and am wondering where in the world you find space there to fly? Are there rc flying fields?? I never saw one, though I saw a big beautiful expensive Zero in a hobby store once.

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I don't live in Tokyo or Osaka, or any one of the other BIG cities with millions of people, so that probably explains the availability of space.

Actually, I've never seen a country with so much green. It's about half as big as Texas and has half the population of the US, but you've never seen as many golf courses or forest covered mountains anywhere else in the world. Just a few days ago I counted 24 golf courses and that was only on one side of the aircraft! Visibility would have only been about 30 kms. They're golf crazy here, and I hear that it costs about 20,000 yen (almost US$200) for a game on weekends on a country course, but much, much more in Tokyo. Weekdays are cheaper.

Where I live, on Kyushu, the southern island, there is plenty of space. We have one field on the river, and it covers a few acres with a mowed runway area of about 50-60 meters, but clear for a hundred metres+ each end, and another just north that is hundreds of acres.

If you've seen a big Zero handing from a hobby shop ceiling, you may have been to Miyazaki, because in a hobby shop here, there hangs a big, beautiful and expensive Zero. But I suppose almost every hobby shop in Japan has a big zero hanging from the ceiling.

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Just a note to add, JR and Futaba are not compatible, but all the JR TXs I've seen work with all the other JR Txs that have trainer cords. I've only ever seen 1 JR TX that didn't have a trainer jack, and that surprised me. It was an old 6channel heli radio.

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Montague:

Help me!

What should I do if I have a JR Quattro when everyone else @ the field has a Futaba?

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You're pretty stuck. You're going to have to find someone with a JR radio, or buy a JR buddy box. But last I checked, they were hard to find, and Horizon was backordered on them.

When I was learning to fly, I was in the same boat, just about the only guy with JR gear. I partnered up with another beginner, and we used eachother's TX as a buddy box.

Oh, I think I saw a website somewhere that claimed to have plans for a converter cable or box or something, but it was strictly home-brew, and I've no clue if it would work or not.

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I met a guy on here, Japan3D, I think that is his handle and he was in the military and flew at a field near his base.