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Friend of mine has decided to try this antennae in his ISC 1/3 scale bipe...just curious if any of you have any experience with this kind of antennae set up. Any range problems?, the bipe is gas (3W 78b2) with smoke. Let us know what to expect...hopefully good news.

Chris

Crazy_Cplanes

Full Throttle that is a nice looking plane in the back ground. Hanger 9 80 Inch Cap 232 is a pretty plane. Later..

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CrazyC,

Lets get her done so we can go fly...my 80" needs a sister...

chris

michpittsman

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Full-A buddy swears by the Deans whip antennae; I"d rather not risk an expensive airplane on some thing "different" (expensive is anything costing over three dollars rtf)...JIM

Lynx

The risk you're talking about is only in your mind, their radiation pickup patterns are different, not better or worse. The currents invovled in receiver signal processing are miniscule to say the least at range and modern day CMOS fabrication is so precise you'd have a hard time scientifically proving (real world fact not theory) that a Dean's antenna has a higher risk factor than a standard receiver antenna. Transmitter's are a bit of a different story because the radiation pattern becomes important then, but not that many people use Dean's style antenna's on an xmitter.

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Lynx,

Thanks for the radiation 101 lesson, just a bit nervous about cutting my rx antennae as elementary as it sounds. Im sure the Dean whip is a fine product...and it will prove so once we range check it....

Thanks again,

chris

JohnW

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A loaded antenna (like the Deans) can perform nearly as well as a tradtional 1/4 wave antenna IF it is well designed. If it was me, I'd closely check range compared to a more traditional setup before flying.

Lynx

Check positions too, you may find you a dead zone in a particular orientation of the antenna that might be helped by simply aiming it a different direction.

RAMFlyer

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Fly one in my Super Reaper/RAM 500 turbine combo with no problems.

I was nervous about it at first too, so I flew the radio/antenna/receiver combination in a "test" airplane for more than two hours of air time. Always fly anything repaired or new in a junker airframe I keep just for that purpose.