That's why I haven't thrown away my very old Digifleet PCM MX-7, 7- channel system. I just look at it and remember that I was using it up until late 2009 - so I've used it for the first 5.5 years of my flying, actually. Incredible how a single look at it brings back many memories.
Hi david that radio brings back a lot of memories from when i learnt to fly.It was actually a sanwa. I learnt very quickly not to bend over when tuning the motor yes you guessed it i took6 inches of my aerial and i did it more than once futaba radios have always been very reliable and they still are today
i have several of these.. 7 fg/ks a couple of 7fg/e and a 7fgh.. all have been upgraded to lipos and 2.4ghz modules.. solid radios back in the day.. still solid today for that nostalgic look and feel.. i fly a senior pattern ship with one setup.. all old school.. air retracts.. tuned pipe.. webra speed 2 stroke..
This is an awesome RC system. I used this kind of system for my racing boats in the past, it never failed. My transmitter looks pretty much the same but the model is different. It is FP-T7FG/K and it runs at 72.080 MHz, FG series (FM). Unfortunately my system is not in such a good condition anymore as I used it really a lot in the past but still a nice piece of history. Thanks for sharing.
Like many others, I had one of these and the Hobby Shack equivalent. Both good radios. As I recall I purchased my first Futaba four channel radio in 1977. It came with 3 regular rotation and one reverse servo, a receiver and receiver battery pack with wall charger. No reverse switches, only 2-sticks and a power button. Oh and it cost just over $200. Yikes, how far we’ve come
I’d love a look inside video on this. Such a beautiful radio and I’m sure it feels great in the hand, with some nice heft, not light and toy-like as my modern Tx feels
That radio has an internal RF module, you can install an FM or new 2.4Ghz module. The battery has a connector so it is very easy to change it, you will need to take the back cover and one of the side panels.
We shall see…. But it is highly unlikely that Futaba would solder a battery pack onto a circuit board. Even in the 1980’s batteries were known to be needing replacement at some point.
I'm flying an FP-T7FG/K that I converted the module to 2.4ghz (mine has a module, didn't know they made a version without one). Works great. Very practical radio compared to the older radios that had no end point adjustments.
I hsvd my old G series radio that is identical to that one, but it never had the freq tuned. Also, the built-in stand can to the vertical position and becomes a carrying handle. Something to keep in mind is that it is not recommended to turn on the transmitter without the antenna installed.
David.. those are super cool radios. ATV is servo travel..so you set the travel..then the dual rate is more or less of that travel. I have a 6 channel "moduled" version of that radio, and hope to one day find a receiver for it..The batteries in these are weird..If I remember correctly, they have are the standard 9.6v 8 cell..but they have a dummy battery in it to take up space. Mine was corroded so I pulled it. You can buy them from batteries America...but pretty spendy. Be careful with the screws around the perimeter, the plastic tends to crack..When you open it, take a look at the wires connected to the gimbals.. Your throttle is working, but nothing else, so there might be a broken wire in there. I just repaired one on an old radio I have..very weird, but these are getting older and more brittle. Awesome radios!!
@@dmrcflyr2 Ah.. I thought you had all of them connected. I had a conquest that had half of them working fine, and the other half doing weird stuff..it was just a tiny wire that had cracked on one of the gimbals. Should be good to go for another 30 years now.
i have several of those, the side screws come off and the sides and the back come off everything is attached to the front, Iwould like mine to be on a newer sysetm of frequencies, not the old 72, if you find out about upgrading the transmitter let me know I'm also a friend of rob renolds he cuts great kits
I just found this. batteriesamerica.com/collections/for-futaba-transmitter/products/nt-8h-9-6-volt-battery-for-futaba-fg-fgk-transmitters store.batteriesamerica.com/nt-8hreplacementbatteryforfutabafg-seriestransmitterschoosefrom700mahthru2500mahcapacities.aspx
Yes, you should never turn on a radio without an antenna, you need at least one section of the antenna. Not having an antenna the RF power wont be able to resonate and the final transistor will overheat and fail.
massive advantage of the old stuff? range. they dont care about a few wet leaves in the way. steel sheds... blah blah... i have my old 36mhz still in use... whereas not one of my more modern 2.4's actually work without some type of glitch. yeah, dont turn them on without the aerial. it may just look like steel tube but its an active element with an AC impedance at the operating frequency, and without it theres no load on the Tx circuit and pop, things start to smoke... you want something from the fifties, mechanical PWM for proportional control. ie, little drums driven by motors, each one wrapped with a wedge of copper shim to make a variable contact, 0% at one end, 100% at the other, 50% midway... and the servo is a motor acting against a spring... the sort of thing that would make for a fun little project... different, be a change from the glut of "arduino" and other BS videos...
I found a setting called allow automatic dubbing. I turned it OFF. This is a new ‘feature’ that I was sent an email about. "Automatic dubbing generates translated audio tracks in different languages to make your videos more accessible to viewers around the world. Videos with these audio tracks are marked as “auto-dubbed” in the video description. Viewers can always switch to the original audio track or to another available language in the video settings. Automatic dubbing isn’t yet available for all creators, and you can only manage it on UA-cam Studio on your computer. This feature is turned on by default. When you upload a new video, dubs will be automatically generated. These dubs will be published automatically for non-experimental languages. Note: Automatic dubbing helps make info more accessible globally, even though not all videos can be successfully or accurately dubbed. Dubs are generated automatically, so they might contain errors due to mispronunciations, accents, dialects, or background noise in the original video. We may also have challenges translating proper nouns, idioms, and jargon. Other issues may arise with speech recognition, like matching the voice used for dubbing to the original voice. You, or someone who speaks the target language, can review dubs before publication."
That's why I haven't thrown away my very old Digifleet PCM MX-7, 7- channel system. I just look at it and remember that I was using it up until late 2009 - so I've used it for the first 5.5 years of my flying, actually. Incredible how a single look at it brings back many memories.
Hi david that radio brings back a lot of memories from when i learnt to fly.It was actually a sanwa. I learnt very quickly not to bend over when tuning the motor yes you guessed it i took6 inches of my aerial and i did it more than once futaba radios have always been very reliable and they still are today
i have several of these.. 7 fg/ks a couple of 7fg/e and a 7fgh.. all have been upgraded to lipos and 2.4ghz modules.. solid radios back in the day.. still solid today for that nostalgic look and feel.. i fly a senior pattern ship with one setup.. all old school.. air retracts.. tuned pipe.. webra speed 2 stroke..
This is an awesome RC system. I used this kind of system for my racing boats in the past, it never failed. My transmitter looks pretty much the same but the model is different. It is FP-T7FG/K and it runs at 72.080 MHz, FG series (FM). Unfortunately my system is not in such a good condition anymore as I used it really a lot in the past but still a nice piece of history. Thanks for sharing.
Like many others, I had one of these and the Hobby Shack equivalent. Both good radios. As I recall I purchased my first Futaba four channel radio in 1977. It came with 3 regular rotation and one reverse servo, a receiver and receiver battery pack with wall charger. No reverse switches, only 2-sticks and a power button. Oh and it cost just over $200. Yikes, how far we’ve come
Excellent history lesson for the new guys and the younger, it shows how we did back in the 70’s and 80’s .
Love the old school vids. Keep em coming!
I’ll try but coming up with subject matter isn’t that easy.
I like this style of radios a lot! It's a complete different feeling when you holding in your hands something like this! 👌
It’s a feeling of quality.
stunning!! thnx for sharing. i also recently found a gold series for my collection, love the quality feel it has.
I’d love a look inside video on this. Such a beautiful radio and I’m sure it feels great in the hand, with some nice heft, not light and toy-like as my modern Tx feels
So very true. It is weighty and feels ‘REAL’.
@ , I’ve a later model JR10X that I want to put into use for all the same reasons.
That radio has an internal RF module, you can install an FM or new 2.4Ghz module. The battery has a connector so it is very easy to change it, you will need to take the back cover and one of the side panels.
Awesome Stuff. Can't wait to see it open
Wow, beautiful radio and no doubt built like a tank too. A look inside would be neat... I'd almost think that the battery is soldered on to the board.
We shall see…. But it is highly unlikely that Futaba would solder a battery pack onto a circuit board. Even in the 1980’s batteries were known to be needing replacement at some point.
I still fly this radio with updated receiver! Radio South updated it to narrow band - AMA Gold Sticker received. Best radio I have.
I'm flying an FP-T7FG/K that I converted the module to 2.4ghz (mine has a module, didn't know they made a version without one). Works great. Very practical radio compared to the older radios that had no end point adjustments.
I hsvd my old G series radio that is identical to that one, but it never had the freq tuned. Also, the built-in stand can to the vertical position and becomes a carrying handle. Something to keep in mind is that it is not recommended to turn on the transmitter without the antenna installed.
Yes that has been mentioned several times but yet it doesn’t mention that in that manual anywhere.
The "K" means it has Dual Rate. There was another version, FP-7FG-E, that had Exponential Rates instead of Dual Rates.
David.. those are super cool radios. ATV is servo travel..so you set the travel..then the dual rate is more or less of that travel. I have a 6 channel "moduled" version of that radio, and hope to one day find a receiver for it..The batteries in these are weird..If I remember correctly, they have are the standard 9.6v 8 cell..but they have a dummy battery in it to take up space. Mine was corroded so I pulled it. You can buy them from batteries America...but pretty spendy. Be careful with the screws around the perimeter, the plastic tends to crack..When you open it, take a look at the wires connected to the gimbals.. Your throttle is working, but nothing else, so there might be a broken wire in there. I just repaired one on an old radio I have..very weird, but these are getting older and more brittle. Awesome radios!!
I only had two servo’s connected so it you can’t say that nothing else is working when there were no services connected to the receiver
@@dmrcflyr2 Ah.. I thought you had all of them connected. I had a conquest that had half of them working fine, and the other half doing weird stuff..it was just a tiny wire that had cracked on one of the gimbals. Should be good to go for another 30 years now.
ATV is Adustable Travel Volume, those are the end point adjustments just for the 3 main channels
i have several of those, the side screws come off and the sides and the back come off everything is attached to the front, Iwould like mine to be on a newer sysetm of frequencies, not the old 72, if you find out about upgrading the transmitter let me know
I'm also a friend of rob renolds he cuts great kits
I still have mine since 1982, uses 8 cell nicad battery's and I to would love to have a replacement battery pack
Have you ever opened yours up? I’m certain the battery pack can be replaced.
@@dmrcflyr2 yes, two times with difficulty trying to fit into allotted space, cannot locate AA cells with solder tabs, etc.
I just found this.
batteriesamerica.com/collections/for-futaba-transmitter/products/nt-8h-9-6-volt-battery-for-futaba-fg-fgk-transmitters
store.batteriesamerica.com/nt-8hreplacementbatteryforfutabafg-seriestransmitterschoosefrom700mahthru2500mahcapacities.aspx
the /k meant it had dual rates.. /e was expo.. 7fgh was Heli..
Can it not be damaged if you turn this on with no antenna ?
Not to my knowledge. What could be damaged?
@@dmrcflyr2 I think it was something about the last component in the output part that can overheatet.
@ Ah, ok. Well i haven’t had it on for any length of time without the antenna. I’ll look in the manual and see if there is anything about that.
Yes, you should never turn on a radio without an antenna, you need at least one section of the antenna. Not having an antenna the RF power wont be able to resonate and the final transistor will overheat and fail.
massive advantage of the old stuff? range. they dont care about a few wet leaves in the way. steel sheds... blah blah...
i have my old 36mhz still in use... whereas not one of my more modern 2.4's actually work without some type of glitch.
yeah, dont turn them on without the aerial. it may just look like steel tube but its an active element with an AC impedance at the operating frequency, and without it theres no load on the Tx circuit and pop, things start to smoke...
you want something from the fifties, mechanical PWM for proportional control. ie, little drums driven by motors, each one wrapped with a wedge of copper shim to make a variable contact, 0% at one end, 100% at the other, 50% midway... and the servo is a motor acting against a spring... the sort of thing that would make for a fun little project... different, be a change from the glut of "arduino" and other BS videos...
Hi David. Did you change something to your channel ? Your lasts videos were dubbed in French by an absolute crappy AI generated voice.
Nice RC set !
I found a setting called allow automatic dubbing. I turned it OFF. This is a new ‘feature’ that I was sent an email about.
"Automatic dubbing generates translated audio tracks in different languages to make your videos more accessible to viewers around the world. Videos with these audio tracks are marked as “auto-dubbed” in the video description. Viewers can always switch to the original audio track or to another available language in the video settings. Automatic dubbing isn’t yet available for all creators, and you can only manage it on UA-cam Studio on your computer.
This feature is turned on by default. When you upload a new video, dubs will be automatically generated. These dubs will be published automatically for non-experimental languages.
Note: Automatic dubbing helps make info more accessible globally, even though not all videos can be successfully or accurately dubbed. Dubs are generated automatically, so they might contain errors due to mispronunciations, accents, dialects, or background noise in the original video. We may also have challenges translating proper nouns, idioms, and jargon. Other issues may arise with speech recognition, like matching the voice used for dubbing to the original voice. You, or someone who speaks the target language, can review dubs before publication."