flyer2488

I know this has been talked about before, but have any of you put heat shrink tubing on your antennas?Different threads have had different answers on how it affects the signal.

baronbrian

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I put small or medium fuel tubing over the antennas to keep them standing out straight from the receiver and satellites. It slides on and grabs onto the little plastic base. I don't have a flight logger, but I've never had a hold after 2 years of flying 2.4ghz using a dm9 module in my 10X. HTH.

airbusdrvr

I use heat shrink or small fuel tubing.

BarracudaHockey

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Robart retract airline works perfectly, but neither it nor heat shrink will affect the signal

AWorrest

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This thread got me wondering. As I was in the process of checking out a newly purchased 921X receiver, I tried it both with and without shrink tubing over the antennas. The shrink tubing reduced the ground range by 13%. Shrink tubing material can differ. I have no idea what material the tubing was made of other than it was dull black and not too expensive. I did another test the next day using Robart’s #185 retract tubing over the antennas and there was no apparent range reduction.

I’ve flown my powered planes using shrink tubing with no mishaps. If the installation is clean enough, the receivers have enough excess range to handle the slight reduction incurred using shrink tubing.

Allan

PatternFlyer

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I've been using plastic antenna tubes. Just heat one end of the antenna tube to make it soft.
put the tube over the base (case) all the way.

over a 100 flights 0 problems on electric setup.

for Glow/Gas setup, I use a tiny drop of canopy glue on the base just before pushing the tube over it.