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Old 03-04-2008 | 09:27 AM
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Default RE: Reciever Antennas

G'Mornin, Irish.

I cover as much as I can. If the antenna stretches beyond the fuselage, as it would on some smaller models, well, it will have to hang over. Just secure it as it goes out the rear by some tape. Blenderm (as used on foamies... see my post on the bug) is very strong and practically invisible. You just don't want it to whip around and end up tearing the covering (if it hangs off the end). But, I can tell ya, it does look good. I have a blue fuselage bottom on my Excellerion 90 and put a strip of red for covering the antenna as described above. It looked pretty neat, and you couldn't tell it was there to cover the antenna. (of course, 72 MHz only.. the DX7, which I put in later, and as you know, is not necessary to make up such a scheme.

And, a round bottom fuselage, like the Nexstar, for instance, is not a problem at all. Pretty much the same as it would be for a flat bottom fuselage, just a little more care to iron on the covering.

CGr.