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A short tale explaining why I will not buy Futaba gear, no
matter how good it is. In the early 90’s Futaba introduced what looked like a
fabulous value, a five-channel PCM radio that cost close to $250. I bought two,
and another member of our club bought three. Everything was fine until we
started experiencing strange crashes. Finally we realized that the PCM receivers
were incredibly susceptible to 3IM interference and we were able to reliably
demonstrate that given the right channel separation you were guaranteed to get
shot down. The catch was that the transmitter ONLY supported this one receiver,
which was so bad that it was ill advised to put in any plane you wanted to
keep. I and the other member tried to talk to Futaba about the
problem and ran into no sympathy, empathy or interest in discussing our
problem. The standard response was that the radio was “Gold stickered”,
and therefore there was nothing wrong with it. The direct rudeness and
carelessness of Futaba employees was unbelievable. We had to retire the radios
and swore never, ever to give that company any of our hard-earned money in the
future. I still have the radios and plan to use them in a
transmitter toss in front of as many other RC fliers as I can. Anker |
