Quick question. Do most of you run the antena for the receiver inside or outside of the fuz?



TIA

Robert

I have been running mine inside and have not had any problems.

I guess I should mention this is with a 9Z, and either R149 or 319DPS recievers. Also with a pletty motor and schulze controller.

I have seen and heard of a few guys..not going to mention names...were having strange intermintent issues with apparent RF noise.
swapping rx and transmitter module did not slove the problem, but when the Antena was moved outside the plane, at least half of it anyway, all
problems went away!.
I hope to have my Silhouette IV Electric in the air in about 3 weeks, and i will run the antenna out the bottom in an antena tube on the bottom of the plane.
Just my observations

It depends on a large number of factors, but mainly on the use of CF in fuselage or other components (like pushrods, reinforcements, etc.) and receiver placement inside the fuselage, with respect to ESC and batteries (receiver should always be places as far away from electric noise sources as possible!).

From what I read, it is best to run 50% of the antenna in one direction, the other 50% at 90° to the first direction. This can be achieved by using the "screw-on"-type of flexible antennae (largely available). In this case you have always at least 50% of the receiver antenna exposed to the TX. I did not yet try this, as I have not had any problems with both internal and external antenna positions.

Regards,
-Fabrizio