Thread: RC Sailboats

Originally Posted by dyimages

The beauty of sailboats is the wind is free

Es Verdad! (True)

Like everything else that is fun, it's all the peripheral stuff that gets in your pocket book.

I've sunk a small fortune into R/C Airplanes. You spend many hours putting the kit together, installing the radio and the engine, get everything working right.

Then comes the big day when you fly it, and it hits the ground and turns itself back into a kit.

I need to get back into it but I am told that all the radio technology has changed.

Most the radios are using 2.4ghz spread spectrum tech. Now you just bind Tx to Rx and go. No more frequencies and crystals.

Originally Posted by dyimages

Most the radios are using 2.4ghz spread spectrum tech. Now you just bind Tx to Rx and go. No more frequencies and crystals.

Well for the summer or so I was into RC cars and actually went from AM to 2.4GHz. I could barely see the car and it still responded properly. Well the dot at the end of the street went left when I turned left. And it appeared to be coming straight at me when I gave it a bump on the throttle and ran into the curb. Then it was yet another hike. If I hit the lottery I would probably do the RC car thing again, nitro smells good and they scream. They just dont fit with me too well, I cant have fun at an RC course. I had to take it to real BMX dirt jumps, the race track & cement skatepark. The expense + downtime just didnt = the hangtime for me.

Oh, back on topic. The setup is a hair more complicated than matching numbers, link them up and go. Nice things, radio remembers more than one receiver & said receivers settings. dial in trims once per vehicle. Built in failsafes are much more common.

Here is a video from the IOM worlds in kirby. this is the class I am going into