RX Ant. Length
On a small plane with lets say a 20" Span. what can you do with the extra ant. wire that hangs off the back. I know that it works fine and have seen replacment ant. (range reduced) but is there anything we can do with our extra length that will not dramaticly reduce the performace (distance) of our recievers.
What comes to mind is a mid load like a CB radio would use. what would the air core have to be Soda Straw? how many wraps would we need to use? is there a simple caculator that could be used IE plug in the freq. and the core diamiter to get back the number of turns and the un coiled length.
I know that the ones on the market are $10 but it would be nice from a hobbie point of view if we could wind our own.
Any thoughts?