Smart Stuff: Spektrum’s Derek Sachtleben Talks Battery Tech
Horizon Hobbies' Spektrum brand is well known for its pro-grade, Readers' Choice Awards-winning radio systems, but you may not know that the brand's first major breakthrough was the 2.4GHz technology we now take for granted. Pre-Spektrum, transmitters and receivers were AM or FM, had long wire antennas, and required you to plug in frequency "crystals" or set dials to choose which channel your car would operate on--and if someone else was already on that channel...
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