This has been on the group before, but I have a Futaba system and two newbies I'm instructing who have JR radios. The LHS is partial to JR and that's what most new fliers end up with here. The only way I can teach them to fly is the old "grab the transmitter when they goof" technique. I know there's a gentleman in the U.K. that makes a universal buddy cord kit, but there is no commercially available off-the-shelf device that will buddy box a JR to another brand of transmitter. I realize one of the problems is that JR assigns its channels differently from other systems, but in this day of microprocessors, somebody should be able to come up with a way to switch them around so each function goes to the channel used by the other brand's radio. Everybody's servos are interchangable now, so why can't we have a standardized buddy cord setup? Is there some enterprising soul who can come up with a device to let different brands of transmitters buddy box together? How about it, manufacturers?
-- Morris Lee snipped-for-privacy@verizon.net