Hi all,

First off, I am brand new to this hobby and am LOVING IT! I bought the Hangar 9 P-51 PTS RTF kit. Have had a couple minor repairs I needed to do but she still looks good and flies great. I have been doing this for about 3 weeks now.

Anyway, my receiver antenna wire got wrapped around my tail wheel and eventually took off the housing around the wire and frayed the ends of the wire badly. I cut off about 2 inches of the frayed wire. A friend told me that the receivers are tuned specifically for the length of antenna wire that they come with and that cutting off the wire was probably not such a good idea. I have flown it several times since trimming it and haven't noticed any problems but I do keep it in at a comfortably close range. Should I be looking to replace the wire or is it ok the way it is? Will I lose any range due to trimming it? If so, how much?

Thanks for your help!
Dave