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Old 01-06-2012 | 03:47 AM
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Default RE: 72 antenna question

No. Do not overlap or cut the antenna!

I fly 72mHz Warbirds and if you don't know it already, we hate to have our antenna show. This is what I do, I try and have my receiver all the way forward in the fuselage far up as possible. What I do is I drill little holes in the framing and run my antenna down the side of the fuselage away from any metal pushrods, servos or electronic equipment. You can run your antenna in a "Z" pattern down the fuse, but don't ever loop it back.


I enclosed and took the time to draw you the basic way I do it in the fuselage. When I build kits I use a thin straw and glue it in the frame so I can run my antenna down and out of the rear bottom of the frame with very little part of the antenna showing.







Pete
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