I just extended the length of the antena on the reciever. Pretty easy and not labor intensive. I also opened up the radio, unsoldered the joint from the wire to the whip antena. I drilled a hole into the top of the radio and fit in an old telescoping antena from a Cox 1chnl radio from the boomerang flying wing. I screwed the the base to the inside front cover of the radio just over the switch and the antena fit perfectly inside the rounded molding just as if the unit was designed to accept a telescopic antena. I then soldered the wihte wire to the tab on the new antenas base and closed the unit up. Looks stock. One would never know that this thing orininally had a whip on on. I havent done a maximum range check yet but it stills flys around mine and the neighboring yards as good as I stated above (post reciever mod, prior radio mod) The looks alone make me feel better.
I do not have access to a camera to upload pics but its pretty straight forward.