Multiplex is not Hitec, it is not owned by Hitec. The person, Mr Chun Park, who owns Hitec also
owns Multiplex and they are two totally separate companies.
The Evo is not a Hitec radio, or a Mr Park radio. It was on sale in Europe before Mr Park bought
Multiplex and of course it was being developed for years before then.
Here in the UK I know people who have gone back to the model shop and traded in Futaba 9Cs and
JRPCM10s for an Evo.

You see very little Multiplex in the USA which is why your friends laugh at it because they don't
know about it, but in Europe it is a very common sight. At my club on a Sunday morning it is end to
end green pizza boxes (Profi 3030 and 4000) with the occasional new Evo.
In serious gliding, no-one uses Futaba. The world championships are controlled by Multiplex and
Graupner, even the Japanese team did not use Futaba or JR. In the UK and Europe at ordinary club
level on the slopes or flat field it is end to end Multiplex. Look at the photos in the gliding columns
of any UK magazine and 9 out 10 radios that you can see are the Multiplex green pizza boxes.
But it's not just a gliding radio. The former World Scale Champion Mick Reeves uses a Multiplex
4000. Duncan Hutson many times member of the UK World Scale Championship team uses a
Multiplex 4000 and if you talk to him about it he wouldn't let a Futaba/JR near his models, he is
even more evangelical about Multiplex than I am! Len Gardiner, another top UK scale modeler also
swears by Multiplex, he uses a 4000.

What about helis? I have met people at my local shop who are there to trade in their JR10 for an
Evo 9 because the wisdom now is that the Evo is so much better than the JR for helis. At the Vario
heli factory in Germany they have ditched their Asian radios and put the entire factory
demonstrator fleet onto one Evo12.
Let the uninformed people with their chromed hedgehog radios laugh. You have bought the top
brand, as Highflight said the only better radio is another Multiplex, the 4000. Next time the people
at your airfield scoff, inform them that the mighty Futaba 9Z uses an ancient operating system,
licensed off Multiplex from 1984!

Ask them who was the first model radio brand to use FM? It was Multiplex!
Who was the first model radio brand to use PCM? It was Multiplex.
Who was the first model radio brand to have digital servos? Multiplex.
Who was the first to have programmable digital servos? Multiplex.
Who was first to use programmable radios? Yep, you guessed, it was Multiplex.

By Harry Curzon