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Radio - JR & Spektrum DSM > A thread for Mr. Beard and Spektrum people to read, improvements wanted looking forward
 
 
sharam
Elite Veteran
Location: Northern California

I love my DX7 - it has become my primary radio. No glitches, totally reliable, easy to work with, easy to program; feel connected, etc.

I am sure I will migrate to the next level JR/Spektrum transmitter.

I have had to get used to the weight (too light) and the balance of the DX7 but I am fine with it now.

I am building a 450 SEV2 and installing a 6100 in that little thing.

My Robbe Cuatro has the AR7000; Extra 260 Hangar 9 has the AR7000, Spitfire has the AR7000, Fury Tempest has the AR9000, Fury Extreme has the AR9000.
05-17-2007 Over year old.
 
 
midwestpilot
Elite Veteran
Location: Crystal Lake, IL

additional rubber grips.. yes great idea

You can add them to the 9c as an after thought and they worked great.. so you could go that route with out retooling the radios...just make it an add on

In life there is no spacebar!

Rich Erikson AMA 6175
05-18-2007 Over year old.
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Discharger
Heliman
Location: Perth, Western Australia

A custom made quality carry case for just the TX as an optional extra would be great.
05-18-2007 Over year old.
 
 
jschenck
Elite Veteran
Location: La Vista, NE.

you are in luck!

http://www.spektrumrc.com/Products/...?ProdID=SPM6701




...yep...
05-18-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Wingman77
Key Veteran
Location: Pulaski TN US

I have a ar6100 and cannot use all of its ports because they are to close together. I am using it on by T-rex and all the wire plugs are bowing off both sides because they are so cramped and the battery port is unusable if I plugged somthing into it I am affraid it would bread somthing on my reciever. Paul is there a reason for them being so close are there smaller plugs?
05-20-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Portblock
Veteran
Location: Van Nuys, CA

I agree with xStatiCa, make it open source, or at least an open API

--source snip-----

DEFINE THROTTLE_CHANNEL = CH_1
DEFINE THROTTLE_STICK = STICK_1

function CALLBACK_MIX_1()
{
int boost;
boost = 0;
// if we move the stick fast
if (accelRate(THROTTLE_STICK) > 50) {
boost = 10; // add more fuel to the mix
}
return THROTTLE_STICK + boost;
}

Just a thought

The voices in my head can beat up the voices in your head.
05-20-2007 Over year old.
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pgoelz
Senior Heliman
Location: Rochester MI

I do not yet own a Spektrum but I am edging up on it

One feature I dreampt up a while back that I am very surprised no one has ever implemented is a "trim button". Placed where you can reach it without taking fingers off the sticks.... well protected.... maybe you have to press it twice.... When you press it, the current aileron and elevator stick positions become the current trimmed positions. It would totally eliminate having to fly, land, trim, fly, land... etc. and you would never have to take your fingers off the sticks or risk landing an out of trim ship.

How many times have you flown a new bird and had to fight to get it trimmed. With this feature you just use the sticks to get it flying straight and level and then press the button. Bingo.

My idea. I give it freely to the first taker.....

Paul

Paul Goelz
Rochester MI USA
http://www.pgoelz.com
05-24-2007 Over year old.
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Micro-Maniac
Elite Veteran
Location: Pasco,Washington Formerly: Captain Chaos

Sorry - ACE R/C patented the trim button a long time ago and was featured on their built-to-order MicroPro radios which are discontinued now

It worked just as you described - Hold the controls so that the aircraft is flying the way you like then hit the trim button - Great feature for those hairy maidens

They made single sticks too

My brother still owns a MicroPro8000 with trim button and dual RF decks
05-24-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Wingman77
Key Veteran
Location: Pulaski TN US

that is an old radio
05-25-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Micro-Maniac
Elite Veteran
Location: Pasco,Washington Formerly: Captain Chaos

Not really any older than the Airtonics Stylus actually - It just had a generic case because each one was built to customer specifications
     (Stylus)

My brother had his built new in '95 I believe - His wasn't setup to fly helis though - He probably shoulda just bought a Stylus instead - But then he wouldn't have had a trim button
05-25-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Dood
Elite Veteran
Location: America's Dairyland

Our foam lined cases for are FM transmitters sometimes dont fit a 2.4 radio all that well.

I think we can all assume the 12X will come with it's own case,
but will the X9303 come with a case?

I have found the Spektrum carrying case, but since I will be owning an X9303, I'd prefer a case that had the JR logo on it. I'd imagine a case like this will exist, but will it be available at the time of release of the X9303?

"El Dooderino" if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
05-27-2007 Over year old.
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erl919
Heliman
Location: Philippines

Electronic cyclic ring would be nice
06-06-2007 Over year old.
 
 
pgoelz
Senior Heliman
Location: Rochester MI

Sigh.... yet ANOTHER thing I seem to have re-invented

Too bad they patented it and then it died. It really WOULD be a great feature if the button was easy to reach.

Paul

Paul Goelz
Rochester MI USA
http://www.pgoelz.com
06-06-2007 Over year old.
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pgoelz
Senior Heliman
Location: Rochester MI

Now that I am a Spektrum owner, I find the ONLY feature from my Futaba 9C that I truly miss is the throttle stick timer. That one was almost a deal breaker.

Another feature that would be handy would be the ability to copy the normal mode trims to all the other flight modes. Or allow the separate trims for each flight mode to be inhibited.

The DX7 doesn't fit the transmitter space in many fitted cases. It would be handy to either be able to remove the antenna or fold the bottom section.

Paul

Paul Goelz
Rochester MI USA
http://www.pgoelz.com
06-11-2007 Over year old.
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IS Pilot
Senior Heliman
Location: Fremont, CA AMA#840804

I agree 100%, I got rid of a 10x and 8103, I have not looked back since!

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Sharam wrote: I love my DX7 - it has become my primary radio. No glitches, totally reliable, easy to work with, easy to program; feel connected, etc.

I am sure I will migrate to the next level JR/Spektrum transmitter.

I have had to get used to the weight (too light) and the balance of the DX7 but I am fine with it now.

I am building a 450 SEV2 and installing a 6100 in that little thing.
06-26-2007 Over year old.
 
 
joehelicopter
Heliman
Location: matoaca,va

Move the Bind Switch...

Off the back of the TX and onto the Front panel with a COVER over it!!!
TO ME THIS IS A BIG SAFETY ISSUE

Joehelicopter
06-27-2007 Over year old.
 
 
pgoelz
Senior Heliman
Location: Rochester MI

You must have long fingers! I have to seriously shift my grip on the transmitter to reach the bind switch. I could never fly that way.

Paul Goelz
Rochester MI USA
http://www.pgoelz.com
06-27-2007 Over year old.
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pgoelz
Senior Heliman
Location: Rochester MI

Hey, I just thought of a really good feature enhancement. If the transmitter and the receiver talk to each other, how hard would it be to have the receiver report back when it missed a frame? It could simply keep a running count since powerup and embed the count in its return messages. The transmitter could show the count in the display. It could even beep if the count was excessive. Something like that would give me that last bit of confidence I don't quite yet have in the robustness of the link.... and indicate pending failures before they bit me.

Paul Goelz
Rochester MI USA
http://www.pgoelz.com
06-27-2007 Over year old.
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marked23
Veteran
Location: Lynnwood, WA

Paul,
I would love to have a feature like that, but I imagine that it might be a support nightmare for the radio company.

Everybody would be sending their radios into repair every time they had a handfull of perfectly normal hits.

You would have one guy comparing his hit count to the guy next to him with the same radio. And the guy with the higher hit count is going to think his radio is inferior... and send it in to repair when nothing is wrong with it.

And we will see endless complaints here on RR about how many hits some guy got and radio company will not fix it.

It would really be a cool feature, but nobody will implement it because of the headaches.

-Mark
06-27-2007 Over year old.
 
 
jschenck
Elite Veteran
Location: La Vista, NE.

The bind switch issue is an interesting one. We ran into a problem where one of the local guys was having his radio inadvertently hitting the bind button because he flies with a radio tray. The fix was to drill a hole in the tray.

Be kind of cool to have the bind button on the bottom/left of the TX, make it red

...yep...
06-27-2007 Over year old.
 
 
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