My recently arrived K2 came with a complete Futaba T6K transmitter setup. It’s the second one I’ve tried. The loan boat I borrowed had the same thing. I’m getting to love it.

At the weekend, we had some chatter at the lake-side with other owners saying they could usefully be more robust. There have been slider switches coming off, water getting in, and so on. Admittedly it does feel a tad ‘plastic’.

VS suggested we all take a look at the T6 model 10J. He says it’s a whole lot stronger, uses the same receivers, and is frankly roughly the same price…. well, there’s not much in it. It’s the difference between ‘quite a bit’ and ‘a lot’.

This is the first link I found when I googled it.

https://sloughrc.com/futaba-10j-10ch-combo-2-4ghz-ts-fhss-mode2-r3008sb.html

This is a pretty good description on the Ripmax website

http://www.ripmax.com/Item.aspx?ItemID=P-CB10J/L&Category=025-060

This is what they show on the Futaba USA website, and it does look a lot more metal over there

10J

If you have any experience of a 10J for radio sailing please leave us a comment on this post.

I’ll try and write something up, just as soon as I’ve seen one for real.