WTB: 50 MHz Futaba

[Oldus Fartus]

Looking for 50 MHz Futaba plug-in Tx modules & receivers.
Pete

[Guest]

Looking for 50 MHz Futaba plug-in Tx modules & receivers.
Pete

I'm assuming you have a HAM license if you're going for 50mhz. In which case why not get 433mhz, inexpensive and offers some advantages over older kit.

[Oldus Fartus]

433 MHz

I'm assuming you have a HAM license if you're going for 50mhz. In which case why not get 433mhz, inexpensive and offers some advantages over older kit.

How well does 433 MHz work thru the water versus 50MHz and/or 75 MHz?

I also heard rumors that the 9 channel receiver might be discontinued?

[Guest]

Just do a search for 433mhz, and you'll find all the information you require. The Hobbyking orange system is probably the cheapest, but it's not the only system out there for open LRS

[ober freak]

I have converted a sub as a testbed from the old 40 MHz to 433 (using the 6 mW setting, as 433 is free to use below 10 mW here in Germany) and didn`t experience any range differences in fresh water between both systems.
I use the OrangeRX TX and RX modules (100 mW), flashed with openLRS and an "Nagoya NA-771" antenna at the TX and a self made dipole on the RX (165mm per radial).

[Oldus Fartus]

Decided to have my 72MHz 9CA/9CH and receivers re-tuned for 75MHz.

[Chuck]

Oldus Fartus.....good move to have the 72MHz re-tuned. I've done it, and it's cheap, easy, and works very well. Since you live in Silicon Valley, there must be a minimum of a few hundred local guys who can do the retune for you.
Chuck (recovering Bay Area Californian)

[Oldus Fartus]

72 MHz to 75 MHz

Oldus Fartus.....good move to have the 72MHz re-tuned. I've done it, and it's cheap, easy, and works very well. Since you live in Silicon Valley, there must be a minimum of a few hundred local guys who can do the retune for you.
Chuck (recovering Bay Area Californian)

The only guy I have found willing to do it (legally) is Vantec (https://www.vantec.com/) up in OR.

[Chuck]

Oldus Fartus
If you can't find anyone nearby, you can send it to Radio South in Indiana. Regardless.....getting a radio re-tuned is the simple and effective way to get 'er done. It's fast, easy, inexpensive, will give you what you want, and is an increasingly viable way to get 75MHz radios, since the radio manufacturing world has switched over to the gigahertz side of things.
Chuck

[Oldus Fartus]

72 to 75 MHz

Oldus Fartus
If you can't find anyone nearby, you can send it to Radio South in Indiana. Regardless.....getting a radio re-tuned is the simple and effective way to get 'er done. It's fast, easy, inexpensive, will give you what you want, and is an increasingly viable way to get 75MHz radios, since the radio manufacturing world has switched over to the gigahertz side of things.
Chuck

Tony will do it for me.
Thanks!
Pete

[Oldus Fartus]

Radio South went south?

Tony will do it for me.
Thanks!
Pete

Sent my Futaba 9-channel Tx and Rx in a few weeks ago...USPS says it was hand delivered to an individual...never heard anything back...anyone know this guy?

[Ralph --- SSBN 598]

Pete,
PM sent.
Short version.
Tony has a day job and works on radios in the evenings.
Basically, call Tony in the evening.
He will answer all your questions.

I just had my Futaba 9 worked on, last month.
Ralph

[Oldus Fartus]

Pete,
PM sent.
Short version.
Tony has a day job and works on radios in the evenings.
Basically, call Tony in the evening.
He will answer all your questions.

I just had my Futaba 9 worked on, last month.
Ralph

Thanks for the info...I'll be patient!

[Oldus Fartus]

50 MHz Receivers For Sale

OK, so after failing to put together a 50MHz system, I had Tony covert my Futaba 9C to 75MHz...works like a dream and now I have 9-channels to play with...

Which leaves me with two 50MHz receivers for sale:

1. Futaba 50MHz 9-Channel PCM 1024 w/o crystal - $30
2. Futaba 50MHz FP-105IP Channel 5 with crystal - $20

The latter is for a Futaba 5NLP radio only.

Pete

[Ralph --- SSBN 598]

Pete,
Good to hear your radio has returned.
Ralph