Subj : New hobby To : Digital Man From : Amcleod Date : Wed Jan 10 2001 10:57 am RE: New hobby BY: Digital Man to Amcleod on Wed Jan 10 2001 09:34 am > > I hope to be meeting eith the head honcho at the local aero-modellers clu > > today. Beureaucracy makes life so much harder! > > Good luck! I met with the guy, and he says that the radio he/the club recommends is the Futuba 6XAS. That's a SIX-channel multi-function super-duper radio that comes with an option to iron your shorts (you supply the starch). :-/ At $240 from http://www.towerhobbies.com/ that's not _terribly_ expensive, (I've spent $3,300 for a radio before now) but it's about _double_ what I'd intended to spend initially, all-inclusive, and that's just the radio! I'd hoped to get my feet wet before deciding if I wanted to take up swimming, ya know? But this way, if I buy the 6XAS then I'm pretty much committing myself to the sport right off the bat. The 27MHz stuff doesn't work here apparently - all the illegal CBers running linears guarantee a crash every time you launch with 27MHz R/C. So it's gotta be 72MHz and I need to get the club to recommend a specific freq. so as to avoid clashing with all the other guys. So I have to decide if I want to spend $240 on a radio to fly a $45 Zagi. Yeah, if I decide to run a twin-engined ducted-fan swing-wing tornado in British-Army-Of-The-Rhine flight colours the same radio will stand me in good stead. But if the first time I fly the Zagi it augers in on the top of my head reducing my IQ to that of, oh, say a MUD-player, and I decide to give it all up, I've blown a LOT of dosh! .