For those who mastered the Profi 4000, there does not seem to be anything comparable out there and some of us are so reluctant to change to any of the other radios (knowing the 4K will be dead soon due to lack of parts and support from Hitech) that a group has started designing and building a replacement that will have open source code, and anything mentioned here plus more.
Before you ask, it will be a long time in coming as it is just a hobby design/build at this time. If any of you serious coders out there want a crack at coding the OP system, we are looking for your talent. It will probably start out as a kit build with completed boards and a new case (like a pizza box but smaller). It will do all the 4K will do and more but the programming logic will probably remain the same, ie. no need for templates and you assign what you want where you want it. I have two 4K's and just converted one to 2.4 using a Spektrum Futaba module (several have done this before and it seems to work fine so far). I used the 2.4 in Nostalgia at the Nat's this year and it performed just fine as far away as I could ever want to fly. I will add a couple of more planes to the 2.4 that are not serious moldies and build confidence slowly. No I do not know about the increased latency yet because a Paragon would not be a good test but it seems to be flying the same as before, like a Paragon. Jack On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:45 PM, SteveR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gordy, if you were flying more complex scale sailplanes requiring > upwards of 14 channels, you might better appreciate the flexibility and > ease of programming that open programming offers. It ain't for everyone. > AERF sailplanes have far simplier radio requirements. > > I just came back from flying in Europe. The top scale sailplane guys > there are moving over to Futaba FX-30 and FX-40 radios as they are the > only 14 channel radios around, feature the closest thing to MPX open > programming and the 2.4 implementation does not require the kluge of > multiple receivers. > > Different strokes for different folks, > > Steve > > > -- > SteveR > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SteveR's Profile: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=7591 > View this thread: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=904850 > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and > "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that > subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with > MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL > are generally NOT in text format > -- Jack Iafret Home and Hobbies
