I was reading on another forum some methods that were used to boost the range on these little guys. I was getting about 80 feet out by 20 feet high prior to tonights mod before losing control. I went to Radio Shack and bought a spool of 30 guage solid wrapping wire that was insulated in a white coating. By soldering on a length equal to the stock antannae, I am now able to get over 120 feet out by 50+ feet in altitude. I was limited by trees, street lamps, and the fear of hitting neighbors roofs and getting lost in an unfriendly back yard. I had no intermitant glitches and all was smoothe. I have the 27 mghz model and was flying around street lamps so i guess either the extension works, or I had a great 3 test flights. I hope this works as it was a painless, 5 minute fix.

Any pics?

Sorry, no pics. Just imagine the wire from the reciever being 2x as long. The wrapping wire was white and the same size as the already existing antanae wire, so it just looks like one longer piece. Just peel off a tiny bit of the sheathing on both wires and solder them up. Tonight I am going to remove the whip antane from the radio and solder in a telescopic one from another junked rc toy.

Kool!

If you dont mind answering a couple of questions,

Did you just extend the original antena or did you solder on to the board a new longer one?

Do you think you could get pics of what you do tonight!

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.

I let the antena on the reciever just dangle on a recent flight and I was shocked that the plane got an additional range jump. Already was better than stock with the 2 antena mods but decided to run to the neighborhood middle school and flew the length of parking lot at a height of the street lamps. I did this with the Bipe and never had a glitch. Unreal just by letting that wire hang rather than tape it to the bottom of the profiles belly.