There's something wrong with your RX, I had that heppened to me when I purchased a new one and pulled out of the box to find out it would not bind from the start, so I sent it back and they sent me back a new unit, just unfortunate it did not work for that race night , had it hours before I went to the track and did not check it, but Spektrum to care of my product and shiped me another unit when they recvd the other.