by Mr Ed » Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:01 pm
I don't remember the article that I read this in, because it was shortly after the radio came out. JR stated that the transmitter looked at the spectrum and picked two channels that were free. Now if this is the case, then JR is receiving on the transmitter along with transmitting. Wish I could remember the article, but it's been awhile and I can't remember everything. Getting old doesn't help either, but that's beside the point. The biggest reason I didn't pick JR after flying a 9303 for quite some time was that fact that I have been reading about all the problems they have been having. At first they said it just flat wasn't true and then they said the guy making the statement didn't know what he was talking about. Then they finally admitted that they had a fix for the problem. This problem was dealing with the brownout and reboot taking so long that the plane crashed before it had the chance to reboot. That tells me that they are not interested in hearing from people until they figure out what is going wrong and then come out and say, hay, we have a fix for that problem. If they can't admit they have a problem and are working on it then something is wrong. Ever since they lost a module I sent back with my transmitter I haven't trusted them. When QQ crashed at a demo, they took it in a hanger and worked on the system right away to see what had happened. It would seem that it browned out and crashed due to the heat. He had flow that same plane a few days before at home and never had a problem. When he went to the demo flight, he was at a location where it was much hotter and he got hit with a brown out and as low as he flies, he didn't have time to recover. He was flying a big plane with lots of big digital servos and they just took to much out of the battery pack. They never said anything about the servos quitting on him, just that the receiver quit and had to reboot. At the time it was taking close to 10 seconds to reboot the receiver and that is just to long. Since then they have taken steps to decrease the reboot time to something like 1 or 2 seconds now. Still, a company that won't admit that they have a problem does not foster much faith with me. I would rather have a company that admits to having a problem and tells me they are working on it rather then one that lies about the problem and refuses to admit they even have a problem. I think they are still in the pre-internet era where they can get away with saying something and not have it all over the internet in a matter is minuets.
Ed