2.4 GHz or 35 MHz

[Lawser]

Probably been asked before but what's everybody using these days...Seem's to me that there is a trend towards 2.4 GHz now ?

lawser

[mac_man]

Oddly enough that "seems" to be the case, but there are still a lot of 35 MHz sets being sold !

To be honest, if I was a flier and I was in the market for a new set, I would hold off for some time so as to allow all the teething problems to be resolved completely.

Spektrum - Voltage issues ( in hand/resolved)

Futaba - Zero GUID issues (in hand)

XPS/IFS - Non Hopping, Single Receiver, Single Antenna

ASSAN - As above

Other Players - allow to establish and see what their week points are.

I personally believe it is still early days yet.

[chugga-bug]

No question in my mind.. 2.4 wins hands down.

If you're already flying on 35 mhz and not having any problems then I'd agree to some extent with Mac-man, Why change.
But for anyone just starting out then I'd advise 2.4 all day long.

I changed over to Spektrum last summer (DX7) after having too many problems at my field on 35megs and I will never go back.

The low voltage issue with Spektrum has been blown up in my view.
so long as you keep your RX battery topped up there is very little chance of it happening. It's certainly never happened to me.

[Kwickkwack]

I mostly fly with 35Mhz and will not be changing just yet, (purely for financial reasons). However If I were new to the sport, no doubt in my mind I would go for 2.4. I have a blade CX2 with its own cheap 2.4 set and it is so much better than the old 35meg Twister Bell I had.

[steve b]

Any One Interseted In The Futaba Fasst 7 Ch Module And Receiver
Brand New Never Used
Steve

[Disc]

staying where I am on 35mhz

[Made2Fade]

2.4 without a doubt.
Lee

[choppertastic]

If I was new to the sport I would go 2.4Ghz but as I have made the investment I will be sticking to 35Mhz as I value my JR PCM10x more than it would get second hand. I might look at the 2.4Ghz module at sometime in the future.

[JeromeF]

Wifi for sure!

35MHz served it's purpose and did a good job, until i started getting glitches - which could of been resolved with lots of tweaking and probing.

[marktigere1]

I'm hedging my bets.

35 MHz FF7 on my Nitro 30.

DX6i and 2.4GHz on my Trex's. (I was getting glitches badly).

Reason I'm sticking with the FF7 is that it's probably worth b@gger all now anyway and we have allocated Xtals at the club meaning no shooting down (I hope!!)

Cheers

Mark

[jboweruk]

I've helis on both, and I much prefer the 2.4 Ghz, it seems a little safer with all the safeguards built in, both my 35 mhz helis have little 'glitches' from time to time, the Skylift will suddenly spool the blades a couple of revolutions, while the Venom Alpine Rescue has been known to go off and quite literally 'do it's own thing'. The BCX has never had issues with it's reception, or any sort of glitch, and that's only a cheap TX.