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Radio Manuals – PDF Downloads or Online Websites…??

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If you use any of our transmitter manuals for radio sailors, you’ll know that we did all our basic manuals (and one of our advanced manuals) as pdf downloads. Very popular they were too. (about 3650 or more downloads as I write in July 2026).

Then we did our more advanced featured manuals for Radiomaster/Futaba/Spektrum…. they have been popular, but nothing like the usage yet as the pdf download manuals.

So as a little test we decided to offer the Radiomaster Advanced manual as both a PDF download AND its own website.

Astonishment – the pdf download is already twice as popular as the website …. 650 downloads already.

OK … give us some time and rainy days, and we might put the work in to make the Futaba and Spektrum Advanced manuals available as pdf downloads as well.

If you have strong opinions, just email them in to the website via the contacts page.

Radio Sailing Transmitter Manuals – on pdf Printouts or their own websites….?

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Our 2025 pdf downloadable transmitter manuals for Radio Sailing Beginners have so far been popular. As I write, the Beginners Guide to programming the Radiomaster has been downloaded 1,075 times in a bit under a year. Doesn’t sound like many? Well according to AI there are only around 19,000 radio sailors in the World. Makes you think.

To upgrade the Datchet Radio Sailing manuals to include some really sexy radio sailing transmitter ideas, we built a website for each brand – we have Radiomaster, Futaba and Spektrum Manuals online now.

If you haven’t seen them, look for the button saying “RADIOS” on the menu (bar or button) of this Club website.

Naturally we thought the websites would sort of take over the popularity. Then something else unexpected happened – the number pdf downloads of the Beginner Manuals actually accelerated and increased.

Consequently now we’re wondering if the websites need to have pdf downloadable versions of their content. Perhaps readers prefer a repined manual to work from.

It wouldn’t take long to do. Let us know what you think!!

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.