Radio-Active FrSky USA

  Around five years ago I bought a new FrSky G-RX8 for a Horizon Hobby Radian.  I bound it up, put it in the plane and then lost signal and crashed it.  From the wreckage I pulled out this receiver and threw her into a box of spare FrSky parts, and there she sat for half a decade.  Newish, less than one flight. I missed a key step in the process which would have saved me a Radian fuselage.  This topic also answers the question as to what to do when you have someone gives you a few older FrSky receivers, or if you have some in planes you've been flying with since the Taranis days.  Can you use older FrSky receivers? Better question, should you? I am somewhat partial to the mid-fuselage pusher style planes. This is my favorite format for a hand launch glider. When I saw the ZOHD Drift come along a few years back my friends went crazy for them. I was skeptical.  Then this cool looking black one came along and I figured it may be worth trying. I managed to...

Small, light, inexpensive 2.4ghz/900mhz dual band receiver The Tandem TD MX is FrSky's best kept secret.  It's small, weighs next to nothing and is a full dual-band 24 channel receiver, much like the TDR18.  Oh yes, the best part?  It's the least expensive TD receiver FrSky sells.  The ideal solution for the TDMX is in conjunction with the RB series of Flight Safe redundancy systems. Here's a picture of the RB30+.  It has 24 output channels that match up to the TD MX's full output channels. Best part of all, you can have up to 3 TD MX receivers and use all of them. To use the TD MX with the RB30+ you will need 4 wires.  Ground (Black), VIN-power (Red) S.Port (Silver) and SBUS Out (Yellow).   The S.Port is your telemetry and S.Bus out can go into RX 1 2 or 3 in on the RB 35+.   It can also go into Pin1 on a TDR-10 or TDR-18 (The TDR-6 only has S.Bus out, not in).  On the RB 30+ there is a spot for your S.Port in for each receiver. Pr...

This has been the ongoing question I get quite often, do I need to replace all my receivers if I buy an FrSky transmitter?  The short answer is Yes, No, and Maybe. I end up having this conversation quite a bit so I will write down what I tend to tell everybody. The first thing I tell people is that  ripping out all your receivers in your planes isn’t always a great idea.  You need  to go about it slowly. This is a new radio system and you will need to give it some time to learn it.   My suggestion is to usually start off with one plane and see how it goes.  There should be an exploration process that happens with the transmitter.  For example, there are many mixes you can setup on your transmitter.  What is brilliant about the transmitter is how easy the mixes are to setup and how well they work together.  Thus you’ll want to experiment with them. It’s best to put them on switches where they can be turned off completely.  At the field yo...