This is now my third 2.4 GHz radio after first having used a special module on the Futaba 3VCS, and then a Spektrum DX6 with the Noux (now sold). It’s the cheapest model, a DX5E, which will be used with my newest boat (soon to be featured on this site…). It seems the Spektrum engineers [...]

By popular demand, some notes on how I’ve placed the antenna of my Spektrum DX6 transmitter inside the case. I’ve been using the radio like this ever since I got it and provided that you hold up the radio more or less vertically and not hide behind large metal constructions or things like that the [...]

Spektrum recently introduced an updated version of the DX6: the DX6i. Horizon Hobby also has an article on the new radio. This one uses ‘DSM2′ technology which is described as giving ‘full range’. Not sure what that means, but range should be better than with the first generation of 2.4 GHz radios, which at times [...]

Predictably, more and more RC-manufacturers are introducing “crystal-less” 2.4 GHz remote control systems. Spektrum has come out with a new 7-channel system called the DX7. It’s not on their website yet, but Horizon hobby has it for sale. This one is supposed to be a radio for ‘real’ models, not only meant for park-flyers like [...]

This is the modified Spektrum receiver I have been using with my Futaba 3VCS this season.