Many years ago, we sent our models aloft on a wing and a prayer. There was no feedback that the radio connection wasn’t working well until the model started glitching or worse, crashed. Nothing to tell us our motor was overheating until it quit or that our receiver battery was on its last half flight. There were certain steps that we could take like measuring receiver packs between flights with a loaded meter or cycling batteries periodically, but even then, many modelers simply charged, flew, and hoped.
hen 2.4GHz systems came along, what we call the receiver evolved to become a transceiver. That is, it is capable of both receiving and transmitting data. During the binding process it receives a signal from the transmitter, exchanges connection information like available protocols and
