AndyF

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My first radio was an ACE single channel pulse radio with an escapement, I bought it back in 1972. If memory serves, I paid about $100 used. I think it was on 27 something. The first airplane I flew it in was a Goldberg Skylane 42 with an Cox .049 engine. I built it heavy and that engine just struggled to pull that airplane around the sky.

Andy

Carson

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My FIRST radio was somekind of 2 tube japanese rig that I
picked up on Isizaki Cho(sp) in Tokyo in 1956. Transmitter was a
homebrew and I don't think it ever worked. Second was a
Babcock BCT2/BCR3 with rubber powered Bonner escapement,
later cascaded to get UP elevator (Pickin' tall cotton then).
Following that i went the usual route; Orbit Reeds, Kraft Reeds
then into the bigtime with a Space Control outfit that cost $529.00
in 1962 (I think). Damn thing was temperature sensitive and i was in Northern Scotland so didn't have many successful flights
over there. Got an EK Logictrol while on Guam in 1966; my first
really great radio. After that i tried Futaba then airtronics and now into JR where I will stay as it is the best I have used.

Carl Carson
WA0TLJ

tknobby

EK Logictrol, 7ch single stick open gimbal w/ 4 giant scale sized servos, large receiver and I can't remember what type of battery. I don't think they were nicads. Actually I am sure of it. The connectors were like din plugs. Tried to install this in a Goldberg Falcon 56 back in 1968.

Too long ago.

Tom...

Ladyflyer

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Mine was a Min-X with a Rand Galloping Ghost actuator in a Goldberg 1/2A Falcon . My boy friend at the time gave it to me after his father started it and never finished it. The stuff was almost 18 years old when I got it . I rebuilt the RF deck from 27 to 53 Mhz with some (A LOT) of help from my dad and bought an Ace receiver kit. The next plane was a step further into the past . A Bramco receiver (3 tubes) and a home made single channel transmitter in a DeBolt Champ powered by a Fox 15X. Picked that stuff up at a garage sale. It made a lot of the other club members nervous to see these antiques flying !

Georg Matthews

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Kraft 5C AM

compaq

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It was an AM 8 Track....... hahaha

leroifort

My first radio was a SPACE 2 2 chanels proprtional in 27Mhz ... 25 years ago

Forgues Research

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My first radio was a CRC 5 channel. It was a black and orange box.
My second was a Kraft sport series, loved that radio. Then I went to ProLine and stayed with them until they were no longer availlable
I then switched to Multiplex Profi 2000, a few commanders, then the Royal MC, then' the MC 3030, and now the MC 4000.

I don't need the new Royal EVO, but I want one
I also have a Multiplex Pico.

Giant Scale

First radio was a Kraft 2 channel with a single stick. Now I own a Futaba 6yf, 7uaps and a 9vap.

linclogs

1961 or 1962 (not sure which - mind is going!), single channel Ecktronics Kraft KT-1 transmitter, Kraft KR-1 receiver with Bonner S/N escapement. Used in Midwest 'Lil Esquire with Cox .049 Babe Bee. A "good day" was when you brought back a repairable airplane!

ec121k

Super Aerotrol CW system in kit. AHC sold it for $14.95 I think and I begged for it for Christmas. After I built it I and a HAM couldn't get the receiver to work. Then on to an Ace/Kraft single channel TX with a C&S Finch II receiver. That receiver didn't like the trans. and never got any range so I bought a Min-X PowerMaster Tx. First plane was a DeBolt Livewire Trainer with Fox .10. Oh yeah and a Babcock escapement.

First propo was a used Bonner Digimite 4. Worked well. Now a whole airborne system weighs less than one servo did.

I remember watching Pappy DeBolt fly in contests in NY State with his Space Control system and dreaming about owning something like that one day.

airbatic

My first radio in 1977, Hobby-Lobby's 6-channel blue box. I think it was made by EK-Logiktrol.

Kraus

paleodust

Futaba Attack 4 (AM) (Channel 52)

I got it sometime between 1989 and 1990. It went in an Eaglet 50.

Bax

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1st R/C outfit was in 1969 after 14 years of rubber and gas free-flight and C/L flying. Had a few free-flight HLG's and towling gliders, too

EK Logictrol III 5-channel system w/4 servos. Enya .45 TV on a Goldberg Skylane 62.

bax

kingbee

First radio was a Hobby Lobby 3 (made by EK), purchased in 1973 for about $100. All dry cells, 27.195 Mhz. It first went into a Jr. Skylark that was never flown, then about 5 years later I put it in a Midwest Lil T glider that I modified for 2 channel operation. I taught myself to fly with that plane, and even though the field where I flew was bordered by a freeway, and it was during the height of the CB radio era, I never once got shot down. Of course, the way I flew it would have been hard to tell

Still have the radio, still works too.

Cheers,
Dave

COL J

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!

My first radio was a 4C Micro Avionics that I put in a Goldberg Sr Falcon. As I remember (this was in 1968 at Ft Ord, CA), the servos were quite large. I later put it in a Sterling Stearman which later crashed due to radio failure. Second was a Kraft 5C and then built a Heathkit.

John
W7QQX

proptop

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Hi all...My first radio was a World Engines "Blue Max" 4ch. in a Goldberg Falcon 56, w/ an Enya .29 ... That was 1974.

Ben Lanterman

My first radio was a home designed (in 1958) and built tube transmitter, single channel. It was the big box on the ground, powered by a car battery via mechanical vibrator supply, it had a big antenna and a cable to a push button in the hand.

The receiver was a homemade copy of the Ace TR 4.7 (minus one amp stage) all transistor receiver which due to the lack of amplification didn't work all that well but the power out of the transmitter made up for it somewhat.

The control was a SN escapement from Lafayette Radio converted to a compound escapement for airplanes. A copy of a single channel Bonner motorized compound servo was used for boat use. At least the boat didn't crash.

The airplane was a DeBolt Live Wire Traner which I crashed every flight as there was no one who had ever flown where I lived and it was learn the hard way not to hold the button down. The crashes weren't the airplanes fault though, just the pilot.

A couple of years later finally some success came with a Controlaire single channel set and soon after a Controlaire multi channel reed set.

The first successful airplane came about 1962 and was a rudder only Charger kitted by Ambroid. The wonder of it is that I still have the airplane in flying condition. It had more pieces in it than any kit I have ever built. It is getting a retrofit to Futaba equipment but with motor and rudder only. It was have an elevator but will not use it for rudder only flying demos.

It is a good thing I am stubborn and wanted to fly very badly.

f4you

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bob Laine
[B]OK oldtimers, what was the first radio you had when you started flying RC. I started with "Mule" single channel transmitter kit, made by World Engines Inc.


Mule "Mark 2" transmitter. Not sure if the "Mark 2" is the same as yours or not. Single button on the front---one push right, 2 pushes left, let off for neutral. Used basically an electric motor driven escapement in the plane, don't remember manufacturer on that (yeh, I know--first thing to go------). Had a BLAST with my Skylane 42, ended up selling to a buddy at the time--should'a kept it.

Modded TX to Galloping ghost later, thought I was in 7th heaven---PROPORTIONAL CONTROLS---WOW!!!

All this in '69. It was a very good year

donthor

First radio Babcock 3ch then went to 1 ch in 1955 Bought F&M 10 ch reed. Then built Digitrio with single stick then a couple of Royal proportials. Finally moved up to Kraft single stlck which I still fly. Works fine after 20+ years. I have four of them now.
Don

Fernando

My first radio was an EK-LRB and a Goldberg 1/2 A Cessna. That was in 1973....
Two years ago, i built a replica of the cessna with some modifications, including ailerons, operated with JR microservos and a Norvel .74 engine. Flew great.
I'm trying to find a EK radio, just for my memories.

karolh

After an absence from the hobby of about 22 years, my first attempt at RC flying was with my 1978 Aero Sport 4 ch.( made by Futaba for Hobby Shack ) in a Carl Goldberg Skylark powered by a ST G21/40 which still runs great.

mulligan

Tower Hobbies Gold System 500 <Bowing head in shame to the radio gods>

- George

049flyer

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My first radio:

Ace Digital Commander 2 channel: built it myself from plans in the magazine!! Took awhile to get it working too.

First plane was a Sterling Minnie Mambo with a Cox .09 Medallion. I lived in Turkey at the time and didn't have anyone to help me fly it.

It was way overpowered and lasted about 30 sec after performing the most beautiful "out of control" loop you ever saw. I "recovered" at about 10 feet with the engine at full throttle (only two channels). My friends that came to witness the first flight of man and machine started running for cover!

It looped again but ended up doing a figure "9"!

First successful plane and radio was an Orbit 5 channel digital and a Goldberg Falcon 56 powered by an Enya .19! What a great plane!

A Betancourt

My first radio was a Cox Sanwa 1 channel that came in a Cox 0.20 powered Cub, it never flew and I used the radio in a Jetco Cessna 170 powered with a TD-051, it flew ok until I tried to fly it in my grandparents yard and it crashed when I tried to land it in the car way.

Regards

Alfredo