Routing antenna

Antenna Tips

Keep your antenna safe and out of harms way. Some people choose base loaded antennas, that's fine. My experience with them was unpleasant many years ago in the R/C car circuit... Today I use the stock antenna that came with my receiver the way I believe it was mean to be. I like to initially use a section of fuel tubing to cover the first 8 inches of wire as I route it down to the skids of the heli... Here the fuel tubing gets slipped on the end of a very long plastic antenna protector. If you look under your landing gear, you probably have little eyes that this plastic tube will fit into. Use small pieces of fuel tubing to keep the straw from moving fore and aft inside these little eyes... as your antenna exits the back of the tube, slide one more half inch piece of fuel tubing over the wire. Now using a rubber band, you can loop your wire thru the rubber band and use the fuel tubing to secure the antenna to the rubber band. Now attach the antenna to a fin... You will find in a crash as the boom breaks, the rubber band probably will also. This is a good thing, but the long plastic straw will keep your antenna away from spinning parts as your heli tries to dig a hole. When in doubt about a damaged antenna you may already have, send the receiver back to the manufacture for proper replacement. There they will perform crucial tests to be sure it is operating at max efficiency... Total cost?? about 10-15 bucks... Much cheaper than crashing!!! Jason