Some of you may remember the 2.4ghz coverage we did last year here on FlyingGiants.com. Through some miraculous course of events, we ended up getting some awesome exclusives on a flood of amazing new products from Spektrum and Futaba, and we even pulled off the first successful consumer tests in giant scale. With the onslaught of news this past year on FG, it should come as no secret that we're HUGE fanboy's of this technology.
In the past months of 2007 we've see many new innovations come from both Red and Orange in form of transmitter retrofit modules, and a whole pile of new native transmitters, and receiver systems. Airtronics now has a 2.4 system, and all of the radio manufacturers are falling in line although it's been a bumpy road at times as products have matured. Third party systems have come market, and every camp's frequency methodology is slightly different. From the first time we all met the DX6 2.4 back in November of 05, it was destiny that this technology was bound to take the modeling world by storm.
So here we are a few years into the 2.4 game, and it seems like 2007 was the year where mass adoption kicked in, and the technology has gone mainstream and version 1.0 apprehensions have diminished. 72mhz is obviously still alive and well, and while it's probably an unknown even by the biggest distributors what the adoption rate is, but we know it's gotta be huge.
So today, we throw a poll out there for our members.
So the question is, have you made the jump to 2.4ghz?
This is a multiple selection poll with a few options.
And we're not looking for 2.4 flammage, please keep it civil.
Thanks again for your continued support Crew! We're almost out of winter, and lookin' forward to an awesome season of flying ahead of us!
Your faithful hobby servants,
~FlyingGiants Staff