Tamiya And Acoms Radio Systems?

[dwayne]

I have never seen Acoms radio equipment sold or used in the United States. Did Acoms gear ever come with Tamiya kits? I seem to find allot of Acoms systems with vehicles that are for sale over in the UK but never here in the US. Is it safe to assume that Acoms were used there and Futaba here in the US?

[dannos85]

Good Question.

But i dont know the answer

All of my cars have acoms, apart from my futaba 4wd 4ch system i got from ebay.com usa.

Its all made in japan though....

I do preffer ACOMS. Nice controls to hold.

[tamiya monkey]

i mostly use acoms because there cheap, reliable and comfortable in the hand.

[mongoose1983]

Now that you mention that, I can say I have never seen ACOMS radio gear offered in R/C catalogs in the United States. Seemingly, in the US Futaba and Airtronics had most of the market. It seems to me that Acoms was exclusively sold in the United Kingdom, just like Robbe seems to be very much a German fashion. It is an interesting topic, so it will be interesting if anybody can tell us more about it.

Y'all have a great weekend!

EB

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[terry.sc]

Acoms was always sold with Tamiya deals in the UK because the Tamiya distributor also imports Acoms radios.

As Ripmax, the Kyosho distributor, used to import Futaba radios it isn't surprising that Futaba radios only came with Kyosho deals.

[kstar]

Back in the 80's there where most kyosho in my area here in sweden. Hitec challanger 250 was the control that was the one. Now I have mostly acoms.

[fritjofarnold]

Acoms were usually included in Tamiya deals here in Norway.

Cheers

Fritjofarnold