Category Archives: Radio Equipment

Radiomaster : Advanced Transmitter Guide for Radio Sailors….!!

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As we write, (14 January 2026) our Radio Sailing Beginners Guides to Transmitters have been downloaded globally 1,600 times. 958 of those downloads were for Radiomaster.

Today we have launched our Advanced Radio Sailors’ User Manual for Radiomaster Transmitters. It covers all the very sexy features that many of you have been waiting for.

It has taken time from several Datchet Members to pull all this together.

Instead of publishing a pdf download manual as we have previously, this time we have given the transmitter its own website. Now you can use it from the side of the lake reading from your phone!!

If you look at the website’s menu bar, you can also download our previous Radio Sailing Beginner’s Guides to Flysky, Futaba, and Spektrum (download from USA). We have also included our advanced Futaba User guide which covers the same advanced Radio Sailing features as the new website. All our Transmitter manuals in one, easy-to-find place.

To see it, click on “RADIOS” on the menu bar above.

Advanced Radio Sailor’s Guide to the Futaba Transmitter

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Last year we wrote Beginners Manuals for radio sailors with Radiomaster, Flysky and Futaba transmitters. There is an excellent Spektrum manual from the USA for which we also published the download link. The manuals have been enormously popular and downloaded about 1,500 times in twelve months. Interestingly the most popular is for Radiomaster, followed by the Radio Sailors Manual for Futaba.

We have been busy recently on both Radiomaster and Futaba finding out how to implement some more advanced features for radio sailing, over and above what we all use normally.

These are:-

. Advanced Mainsheet Management

. 4 Position “Pinch and Puff” using joystick plus switch

. VMG Fine Tune for Mainsheet using volume dial control

. Flick Gybe on a Button

. Advanced Rudder Management

You can download the Implementation Guide for these features on Futaba by clicking here:-

https://drsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/sailing-radio-controlled-pdf-version-general-topic-advanced-futaba-t10j-guide.pdf

Marblehead Games – Littleton

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Eight of us took our Marbleheads over to Littleton (Guildford MYC’s new home) today to compete in the Mermaid Trophy and part of the Marblehead Games series.

It was shorts weather last week, and polar weather today !! We were on A rigs in the main.

The huge proportion of the fleet were sailing F6’s – a very nice feeling for PH and GH, to see the result of all their years of hard work making an impact.

Two of our advanced Radiomaster transmitter projects were also in test today – looking very good! (More on this before the year is out) PH’s new TX15 was looking very smart showing off its multicolour gimbal illumination in the half light of the afternoon! Very Christmasy !!

The event organisers made an interesting claim – that this Games Series is the longest continually running Marblehead event in the country…. it’s been running since 1979 even through covid and lock down! Pretty good !!

It was a nice size fleet of around 12 or 13 competitors. Final results will be with us shortly. Hotly contested at the top! NB was beaten into second place by just 2 points, and HM came 3rd – both of them with a good number of race wins!