Mike: the only thing about the 14 mz, reviewed in an American mag recently, that peeked my interest was 8 servo wing sailplane configuration, complete with independent tiperons. They had a screen shot of one of the templates. Looked cool. The rest is overpriced useless bling bling.
Evo schmeevo, I have used one, overrated, under featured, global mixers and dual rates, what? Feels like a K Mart toy trans. in your hands. The 9303 needs to be looked at. It has addressed some key sailplane specific mixes, while sacrificing some in other not sailplane specific areas. When you switch to power aircraft mode, certain other mixes appear in lieu of sailplane programming. They did a good job with what they had and kept it at a reasonable price. It also has flash memory. And very easy to program, once you realize the manual has some erroneous info, omissions, Horizon has updates on the web site :-) Interesting, Graupner did their own thing with the 9X and added channels in lieu of some programming. I have a non technical review on my website if you're interested. Under tech tips. JD Endless Mountain Models http://www.scalesoaring.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Shellim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 8:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [RCSE] Re:Profi Multiplex 4000 > > > Well, obviously you have " profi religion" and faith that Ernie won't > > retire, or decide not to repair radios in his spare time. > > The Evo is *almost* a great soaring radio but for those dumb shared > mixers. > Pretty well wrecks it as a serious radio for people (a) have lots of > different models and (b) who want to play with the mixers - which is half > the point of getting an Evo in the first place. I use mine as a 5-memory > radio... > > Interestingly, the Evo 7 has totally private mixer defs, so it's unlikely > to > be a software issue, more likely a memory limitation. It may be > significant > that MPX upped the model memories of the 9 and 12 shortly prior to launch, > if this was at the expense of private mixers, then it was a rare slipup by > MPX. > > But the basic architecture is sound. If the Evo had 'privatised' the > mixers > and proper 3-state logic switches, I'd use in preference to a 4K for F3F. > > > The new, albiet overpriced Futaba 14 > > channel has what looks like the future in hand > > As for the Futaba 14MZ, I saw a site with some screenshots and a not very > in > depth review. Positive features: Lithium cells, large display, and > CompactFlash memory . But judging by the screenshots, the UI is truly > horrible - forget Windows CE, the graphics look like MSDOS and the dialogs > poorly designed. IMO the 4000 is still the mixer king, the Evo is still > the > UI king. > > Mike > > 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 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
