UPDATE – Well so far I have flown the Pulse, T-28, RV-9, Diamante, and Blade MCX with this radio and love it. Eli showed me the basics of setup and I’ve been able to slowly explore some of the features.  I like the rolling selector for navigation along with the large LCD display. It will be awhile before I use more than 7 channels and require complex mixing, in the meantime I’m just using the basics such as D/R and expo, dual ailerons, and a couple simple mixes. I have not really played with the PC data transfer much although I have been able to backup model definitions. So far so good!

So today is my b-day and yesterday my gift to myself arrived from Todd over at www.toddsmodels.com – a JR X9303 radio + goodies!

Following the JR naming convention this is a (9) channel, (30) model memory, (3) type TX – air / heli and sailplane. This is effectively the XP9303 w/integrated Spektrum 2.4GHz DSM/DSM2 technology. It’s been on the market since approx. late ’07 if I recall correctly and is regarded as a highly flexible radio. It came bundled with a JR R921 receiver.

I also picked up the USB interface & PC software, you’re able to backup model definitions and theoretically fully configure a model via the GUI then commit it to the radio. Naturally I had to get a neckstrap and the dual TX case from JR as well – the same one Eli uses.

I’ve unpacked it and charged the TX battery overnight, and hope to start playing with it this afternoon. More to come!