I don't read these everyday, so my comments are sometimes alittle behind the curve, so to speak. supplier bashing is an intregal part of this forum. sometimes legitamate or well founded other times not so. Many times if people take the time to find out the facts for themselves and not get caught up in a feeding frenzy, they will discover another truth or alternate truths about a paticular supplier or manufacturer. In other words one mans experience is not neccessarily another's. The FMA thread is an example of what i believe are half truths and a basic lack of understanding of what Fred Marks has contributed to the electronics end of our sport for the last 35 years or more. I don't intend to be an apologist for Fred's business strategies, but there are few original thoughts or designs in R/C modeling. almost every technology is derived or evolved from another. Borrowing ideas is a fact of life in all business, is anyone naive enough not to realize this? Look at the auto industry or telivision programing. Believe me if Horizon or Global Hobbies thouht they could sell 1,000 Pegasus towplanes, you would see it in their line up next year, fresh from China by the container load. (However,I am quite sure I am safe in my small niche!) FMA products are of good quality, but as in all things, one has to pick and choose for his own best purpose. FMA's dual conversion rx's are the best after market product out there. These stand up to large scale gas plane systems where ignition RF and long servo leads both contribute to a challenging environment. Fred Marks has designed more R/C electronics gear including transmitters, rx's, chargers, while working at ACE R/C, than anyone on this list to be sure. Fred has a long history of TECHNICAL expertise. I have known Fred since his days at the now defunct ACE R/C (not to be confused with the reincarnated ACE Distributors). I am an FMA OEM buyer, I like their super suple 150 strand servo wire, four pole redundant switches, dual conversion rx's, and use these products in the Pegasus tow planes without hesitation. I have done the homework, I buy what works, and after a thousand or so tows at RF saturated events, FMA products have not failed once for me. regards, John Derstine E-mail; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scale Soaring: http://www.Geocities.com/~scalesoar -----Original Message----- From: Bob Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 1:45 AM To: glide Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Receiver Madness FMA Direct sells dual conversion receivers on 50 and 53 MHz. Check them out at https://www.fmadirect.com/home.htm RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
