Thumber.

I think pinchers tend to use the big heavy radios (and use neck lanyards with them). Most who use the smaller gamepad style, tend to be thumbers (from watching many random YT vids).

I use ELRS (FTR). I never mentioned that. I run a Jumper T-Pro, which is about the same size as the Tango and various other gamepad style controllers. To set it up was, interesting (and the quad as well). I'm sure if I'd been starting out on Crossfire it would have been the same. So it's still apples and oranges.

I will be after a Tango 2 at some point as I would like to try Crossfire too.

(08-Sep-2022, 03:12 PM)Pathfinder075 Wrote: Thumber.

I think pinchers tend to use the big heavy radios (and use neck lanyards with them).  Most who use the smaller gamepad style, tend to be thumbers (from watching many random YT vids).

I think they tend to feel more solid to me. I probably could become a thumber since games were life growing up with a PS1 and a PS2, but i've been a hybrid pincher since I started. I think where I'm struggling is that I love the look of many of the Frsky radios, but they require too much bs to get setup with crossfire. In a perfect world, the baud rate would be fine in the Horus X10s, and I'd grab that in the Amber color and slap in my crossfire micro tx and go........


but the beat goes on, and I'm on the search for a radio that calls me. I'm not a huge fan of the styling of the Radiomaster series stuff, and I'm not sure why. I'll keep looking and I'll hold onto my custom QX7 I guess until I figure out how to make the Horus X10s work with crossfire....

Just my 2 cents worth...

First, I have a full size Jumper T16 that I like really well and have had NO problems
with it at all. However, it is an original with Jumper TX {the original fork of OpenTX}.
I have both multi-protocol and FrSky R9 modules for the full size JR bay. I like this
size better than my smaller transmitters. I have a Bayang protocol transmitter that 
is about the size as the QX7. I like the full size transmitter better. Maybe just me
since I have never been a gamer and my hands are not small. 

My next radio transmitter will be a RadioMaster TX16S Mark (what ever is newest)
and very likely with the ELRS internal module since I already have a multi-protocol
module. 

If I was using TBS Crossfire, then I would stay with that. Crossfire is a well proven
technology and the one that the seasoned long range guys run. In fact, I may go 
with Crossfire anyway even though my next transmitter will likely have ELRS internal.
From my perspective, ELRS is just a way too complicated to set up and it is still in 
development. I may try it at some point. If it is still more complicated than I want,
then I may yet go with TBS Crossfire. If I was in the Crossfire environment, I likely
would not leave.

(08-Sep-2022, 10:02 PM)BigBeard Wrote: I think they tend to feel more solid to me. I probably could become a thumber since games were life growing up with a PS1 and a PS2, but i've been a hybrid pincher since I started. I think where I'm struggling is that I love the look of many of the Frsky radios, but they require too much bs to get setup with crossfire. In a perfect world, the baud rate would be fine in the Horus X10s, and I'd grab that in the Amber color and slap in my crossfire micro tx and go........


but the beat goes on, and I'm on the search for a radio that calls me. I'm not a huge fan of the styling of the Radiomaster series stuff, and I'm not sure why. I'll keep looking and I'll hold onto my custom QX7 I guess until I figure out how to make the Horus X10s work with crossfire....

It looks like you have the original left joystick and a Hall Sensor on the right?

(08-Sep-2022, 10:02 PM)BigBeard Wrote: I'm not a huge fan of the styling of the Radiomaster series stuff, and I'm not sure why.

I can think of some reasons, except I just got a T8 Lite and to be fair it flies fine, to say it cost £25.  But then it's light and cheap, not styled like a large house brick.

Why not one of the Mambo's?  Slightly different design, but still fairly full sized.  Comes with Tracer, but would take a JR Crossfire module.  Won't be hitting the top of your budget either and you could spend some of that spare cash buying a couple of Tracer receivers.

Just a thought.

I prefer Taranis 9XD Plus SE (Access or 2019) with a racing throttle gimbals.
Then Ghost module in the JR bay.

I don’t like what FrSky did with Access but no real problems with hardware using TBS or Ghost or pre access firmware.
I put a racing gimbal on throttle side and it really helps throttle response.

If there’s another 50% sale on FrSky I may grab one.

(09-Sep-2022, 12:35 AM)brettbrandon Wrote: It looks like you have the original left joystick and a Hall Sensor on the right?

haha I do - early on I thought something was wrong with the right joystick, but I had messed up a setting. I actually ordered a hall sensor when they were on sale at cyclonefpv a week ago for 12.00, but it'll likely take 2 or 3 weeks to get here.

(09-Sep-2022, 04:24 PM)BigBeard Wrote: haha I do - early on I thought something was wrong with the right joystick, but I had messed up a setting. I actually ordered a hall sensor when they were on sale at cyclonefpv a week ago for 12.00, but it'll likely take 2 or 3 weeks to get here.

I replaced mine with the Hall Sensors a few months after I got it. So much smoother feeling...

$350 is a lot for radio.

Im die hard set on compact Jumper T-Lite.
For flying on the go, I basically have " tiny shoe box ".

Box is Width of CobraX goggles. TLite squeezes in. Have to take off antenna etc. And then I shove 3" quad, batteries and goodies. 915 ELRS getting broken from removing and adding.

I cant imagine doing same with my QX7 or other big radio. Too bulky.

(13-Sep-2022, 04:28 PM)romangpro Wrote: $350 is a lot for radio.

Im die hard set on compact Jumper T-Lite.
For flying on the go, I basically have " tiny shoe box ".

Box is Width of CobraX goggles. TLite squeezes in. Have to take off antenna etc. And then I shove 3" quad, batteries and goodies. 915 ELRS getting broken from removing and adding.

I cant imagine doing same with my QX7 or other big radio. Too bulky.

I definitely admit the QX7 is bulky, but as a bigger guy (6ft 260lbs) and as a hybrid pincher, the larger size feels pretty comfortable to me. I did enjoy the size of the smaller controllers, but since I don't thumb, they were a little difficult to hold for me comfortably. Maybe the solution is to become a thumber and go from there. For now, I'm just gunna keep my trusty QX7  I guess.

Everyone has their own preferences.

I'm still rocking a trusty old FrSky X9D+ SE which has been ultra-reliable and "just works". It has never failed or let me down (knock on wood). If it's not broke, then don't fix it. I can probably guarantee that if I got a new transmitter it would start developing issues and I would regret it. Unless temptation gets the better of me, I will likely just stick with my X9D until it either breaks or it gets too old to support some new firmware features that I want.

I like the big bulky transmitters because they feel solid. I can just hang the weight of it off a neck lanyard then rest it against my stomach which is the perfect flying position for me without the need to have to free-hold it in mid-air and/or without having to hold it out away from my body which I would have to do with one of the smaller gamepad style controllers.

+1  agree with SnowLeopardFPV.

If it ain't broke, then don't fix it.  

You have something that works. If you like it, why change.

Also agree, only change or upgrade if the new gear does something that you want that the 
old gear doesn't. That is sort of where I am at. I have an original Jumper T16 with JumperTX
and it works fine, has been solid and always works. Now, I have NOT changed ANYTHING on
it, so I just leave it a lone. It runs the protocols that I have which, by the way, work at the
locations where I fly. 

I know absolutely nothing about radios.
I only have experience with old ones like QX7, TX16 and TLite. But I think its mostly like buying shoes.

Lots of bells and whisles but pretty much all same underneath. Find what fits. Find whats comfortable.

a futaba could be the radio breaking your price limit xD