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plane works without antenna soldered on why?

Old 01-09-2008, 11:43 AM
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Default plane works without antenna soldered on why?

I took apart my mini storm launcher and going to put it on another foamy I'm building.

took the antenna and am going to solder longer one on, but i can it without in on and the props still run like the antenna was still on how can that be? I'm sure the range won;t be that great but it's weird how it works with it off.



PS I'm going to put a longer one on it so i have a range of about 600ft now.
Old 01-09-2008, 01:05 PM
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longer antennas do not increase range.........
Old 01-09-2008, 03:57 PM
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longer antennas do not increase range.........

well reception then
Old 01-09-2008, 04:12 PM
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there is an optimum antennae length for each receiver and going either longer or shorter will gradually decrease the range or reception capability.
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To a point, but longer gets better at some point. The issue is that the antenna needs to be a length that corresponds to a wavelength of the frequency in question. IE, if your antenna is 1/4 wave, a little longer will be de-tuned, and be bad, but twice as long (half wave) will give a better signal . . . should be by about 3db (double the signal . . .) and so forth as you get longer.

Unfortunately, you can't tow two miles of wire, or we would have insane range . . . .

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there is an optimum antennae length for each receiver and going either longer or shorter will gradually decrease the range or reception capability.
Old 01-09-2008, 05:49 PM
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Fly it with the same length antenna ..........ONLY. Best protection against glitches & motor noises.

Some transmitters and receivers can be damaged if the antenna is not used.

Rich
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To a point, but longer gets better at some point. The issue is that the antenna needs to be a length that corresponds to a wavelength of the frequency in question. IE, if your antenna is 1/4 wave, a little longer will be de-tuned, and be bad, but twice as long (half wave) will give a better signal . . . should be by about 3db (double the signal . . .) and so forth as you get longer.

Unfortunately, you can't tow two miles of wire, or we would have insane range . . . .

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there is an optimum antennae length for each receiver and going either longer or shorter will gradually decrease the range or reception capability.

that's what i did it's twice as long
Old 01-10-2008, 03:45 PM
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Good point. I didn't think of that.

I am told however that some receivers have built in base loading which makes the lengths hard to figure out.

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