Was Given this Today

[RussCA]

A guy from work was cleaning out his desk and came across this little item, he was about to throw it in the bin and thankfiully i stopped him and he just handed it over.

No itentions of using it, more a case of a little bit of history, everything is complete including instructions..

[toesup]

No itentions of using it...

Nooooooo... :eek:
This means you have to build an.... airplane... now... ;)

[RussCA]

I know, and no i'm not...

It is funny however that on the front of the box is clearly states that this is "for Cars, Boats, Gliders and Simple Aircraft"

I guess the frequency rules did not yet apply

[CryHavoc]

More likely its just a generic statement. That radio was available in different frequencies. Although most of them were produced for ground use, it was not uncommon if you didn't have a bunch of money to start out with a cheaper 2ch radio like this one. More than a few were bundled from Tower in 2ch glider "combos".

My very first ever radio was a similar Cox 2ch set-up. It was very hard to find an instructor. Because of the stick arrangement elevator had to on the left which most people could not deal with.

Mike

[steveciambrone]

Odd ball system, two channel on 72 MHz, and with the channel Number system. Useless for a plane, even two channel glider flyers us the right stick for both elevator and rudder. Was there transition period between the colored flags to the numbered channels where 75MHz was not identified as Surface use only?

Thanks
Steve

[steveciambrone]

My very first ever radio was a similar Cox 2ch set-up. It was very hard to find an instructor. Because of the stick arrangement elevator had to on the left which most people could not deal with.

Mike


If someone showed up at the flying field with something like this, the best recommendation was to buy a real radio with a minimum of 4 channels. The four channel units were always priced so competivly that they were the best bargain.

Thanks
Steve

[CryHavoc]

If someone showed up at the flying field with something like this, the best recommendation was to buy a real radio with a minimum of 4 channels. The four channel units were always priced so competivly that they were the best bargain.

Thanks
Steve


Wasn't an option when you were twelve years old and good 'ole grandma was foot'n the bill.

Mike

Edit... I've got a 1999 RCmodeler magazine in front of me right now. In the Tower add, A 2ch Futaba 2DR was only $45 with two servos. The nearest four channel was a 4VF with three servos for $135.00... $90 more. I agree that in the long run it was a wiser investment but to a twelve year old kid, $90 you didn't have may as well have been a Million.

[Kmot]

Mode 1 two channel for gliders and 1/2A planes.

[RussCA]

Surely this has to be at the lastest mid-80's technology

[Gary Mortimer]

That was the first radio I bought in the early 80's!

[Claudioalberto]

I learned to fly with this radio, I got it one Christmas and soon after when I was still building my first glider a Carl Goldberg Gentle Lady it I would come back from school and open the box just to play with it and watch the servos move.

[steamboatmodel]

I can't remember what year it was, in the early 70s think, but originally (pre 75MHz.) there were three 72 mhz. frequencies legal for surface use, as well as the 27MHz, band. I had five radios on 72MHz, four of them two channel two of which were on a frequency that was not reallocated to planes, the other two were were not worth retuning. The remaining 72MHz was a five channel which I had re tuned to 75MHz., which I used untill they went to narrow band in 91.
Regards,
Gerald.

[boater_dave]

I had a Futaba radio a long time ago and the sticks could be rotated in the holes through the front cover. You have to unscrew the case, but it's not hard to do. The gimbel sits in a ratchet like space, as I recall.
Just a thought if you want/need the sticks to move the other way.

Dave

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

That was the first radio I bought in the early 80's!


Yup, I still have one of those .... uhh somewhere..
The other one was parted out. The sticks should rotate
in that box...
And yes they were $45, and it seems like you can
still pick up a 2ch attack radio for $45. (http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXGRM7**&P=0) :o

[cryhavoc38]

Odd ball system, two channel on 72 MHz, and with the channel Number system. Useless for a plane, even two channel glider flyers us the right stick for both elevator and rudder. Was there transition period between the colored flags to the numbered channels where 75MHz was not identified as Surface use only?

Thanks
Steve

I learned to fly gliders with the elevator and rudder on separate sticks back in the day when all I had was a three channel radio with the throttle located on the back with slider.

Then bought a Futaba Conquest 4 channel and still was soo used to flying elevator on the left and rudder on the right that I wired up the servo's on the channels needed to fly this way. :)

Took me forever to get used to the idea of yanking and banking on the same stick with a three channel plane, and now of course, its second nature to have the right stick control elevons for a three channel plane.

[Prins Willem]

I have one like this only in a Brown case from 1979. At that time 72mhz covered everything. When the frequency split came in I had it retuned to 75mhz. I also have a Black unit like yours from the late 80's which came in 75mhz.

[norgale]

Jeeze! "Way back in the 80's"? "A long time ago in the 70's"? hard for me to believe either are relevant. How about the 50's when none of this stuff existed except maybe in somebodies mind. Now that is old but surly the 80's isn't is it? I mean the 80's was just a few months ago right? Oh me. Pete

[CryHavoc]

When '80s music is considered "classic" on the radio they were no longer just a "few months ago".

A while back I was in a bar when a cute young thing came up to get a drink. A cool song came on that I remembered and I noticed her beebop-ing to it so I commented that, "This is one of my favorite songs". She looked at me said "Yeah?? Its one of my dads favorites too". I'm usually pretty witty but that one hit me like a ton of bricks.

Mike

[norgale]

Hahahahaha! I know the feeling Havoc. Sure kinda puts you in your place I'd think. What bothers me sometimes is when I am talking with a younger person who isn't really THAT young and they call me "sir". HEY! I don't want to be a "sir". I'm not old enough to be a "sir" and then I have to realize that I'm not 30 anymore and the guy was just being respectful which I find very nice and I don't see that very much anymore.
When I was a kid the BIG BANDS were still in vogue and I remember them well even though my favorite music is from the 50's and 60's. Oh well I still have my records if not the cutie at the bar. Ha!
However getting back to the subject here I have a 2 channel Tx that I got from Model Expo last year for about $60 I think it was. It's a HItec and works very well. But what year was the Tx set from that's pictured at the beginning of this topic? Pete

[fooman2008]

Norgale,
When you comb your scalp in the morning you are a 'sir'!
My first radio was a gorgeous and heavy 6 channel circus hobbies radio that the guy who sold it to me (for $50) had had returned for surface frequencies. It had a steel case and weighed about 4 pounds I would bet. Had enough range that you about need binocs before it would run out of range (it also had about a 5 foot antenna). I took I to college and since it was two sticks with both axis functional I reset the servos so that both channels were on one stick. Had a couple of friends with power wheelchairs (who could only use one hand very well) and I let them drive my r/c truck. They had a blast! It was worth it for the looks on their faces (you see them 'in' the car racing around like they couldn't). Not long afterward some bastard stole it out of the impound at a race.
I was a car guy (the guy who gave me the radio managed the LHS I worked at, he was the boat/plane guy and I did cars).
Foo

[green-boat]

I saw one of these (a Futaba 4 channel in the box) in an electronic junk store today for $119.

[Kmot]

Those people are clueless and big dreamers it seems. :p