TX with the best range???

[gsbuickman]

If you like your Flysky and you want to get the antenna free of your cf hull, there is a cheap easy solution. Purchase a traxxas villain iv whip antenna to attach the Rx to. Not only do they look like a scale version of a 102" whip, they look vintage kool. Instead of soldering the Rx to the antenna base, I use an electrical eyelet terminal. The antennas are 18" long... :)

[Southwest]

You could get a 3' piece of 1/8" clear plastic tube from LHS. Not upgrading gs; and piece of wood and ca to inside of hull and drill hole in top. Next use stranded or solid wire and slide into tubing and down to rx. I use to use spade clips like + - so I could use just 1 rx for all the boats, worked great as long as the antenna was 18" long. Now if I got ambitious, I would use brass and extended up and out of hull which gave strength to 1/8" tubing and a tiny look of class, LOL!

[BHChieftain]

I use spectrum TX mainly for the marine receivers-- use them in all 7 of my boats. I have never had an issue with range or glitch.

Only thing is that if the boat subs I will usually lose signal and it takes about 10 seconds to re-establish the connection when that happens (but it has never failed to reconnect).

I use the higher end DS3S with model memory, but then I figured out you can actually have multiple RXs bound to a single TX, so if I ever need to replace my TX I'll just use the DS2E.

Chief

[T.S.Davis]

We had a pond that nothing would run on but it was back when you would buy the module if you wanted DSM. Not the marine versions we have now. I've not been back to that pond since we had all the trouble there. Smooshing into the seawall kind of soured everyone on wanting to run there anymore. Think we crunched 5 boats that day. 1/8 scale burned in at about 55mph. That was plenty.

I run all Spektrum. I can't tell you it's "better" than anything. Only that it's worked well for me so far. Been running the marine RX's since 2009.