I've got young kids (2.5 and 5.5). They're both decent at driving rc crawlers, however they're not decent at not accidentally dropping their radios. We just blew through a second tactic ttx200, and they've dropped a dx5 and goofed up the power button (It still works-ish).
No way I'm getting approval from The Minister of Finance (aka wife) to buy them both ruggedized radios, so instead I'm looking for a decent affordable radio that's not going to make me feel like crying every time I see one hit the deck, but also well built enough that they could take a few hits. I was eyeballing the spektrum slt3, but I figured I'd turn to the RC Talk brain trust since I haven't really messed around with tons of different radios.
No way I'm getting approval from The Minister of Finance (aka wife) to buy them both ruggedized radios, so instead I'm looking for a decent affordable radio that's not going to make me feel like crying every time I see one hit the deck, but also well built enough that they could take a few hits. I was eyeballing the spektrum slt3, but I figured I'd turn to the RC Talk brain trust since I haven't really messed around with tons of different radios.