Thanks Jason, will be making enquiries tomorrow. ps blazing hot sunshine up here

Adam, I couldn't believe how much the wires shortened my range. Got the same setup on Synergy with no probs at all so I don't know why its affected the Astral so much. Wire length is about 1.2m (still need to shorten wire at servo end so it's coiled inside my tail for the mo). I am also going to put a ferrite ring on each of the long wires at the servo end see if that improves matters along with funky whip aerial.

Angus