RE: Cutting reciever wire bad idea?
Use an inside antenna fuselage tube and put the wire through it. Then what ever is left over just pull out the end of the tube and fold back. It doesn't touch the other part of the antenna and works great. Before some of you guys say I'm wrong, I want to tell you all 10 of my flyable planes are setup this way and they have never gone out of range or had any glitches. I learned this from an old-timer and have done it ever since!!!
Gibbs