Antennas are simple. Ant's work best when they are parallel to each other. One being a Tx and the other being a Rx. Any time you put one of the antennas at an angle to the other the Rx will have less signal exposed to it. You shorten up either antenna the signal to the Rx will be less. You bend,fold,coil, the signal will be less at the Rx. The Antennas are cut to a specific length by Frequency. The Tx care only that its tuned with the Frequency it is putting out. Tuned means that the Tx puts out all the power to the Antenna. When you collapse the Tx antenna on the RC Transmitter. The power bounces back to the power output of the Transmitter. On CB's they would burn up their outputs transistors when they had bad antennas. Our RC Transmitters are designed to handle the extra power. You do range checks all the time Right!! I have done things I'm not proud of like just sticking the Antenna in the fuse just to check out a sailplane and launched it a few time to see how it fly's. You every do that? It fly's great the first time but the second time it gets weird. You find out that the Antenna has slid up to the receive. You every see a person trying to fly his sailplane with his smiley Antenna laying on the ground? Or ever launch a sailplane and wonder what's going wrong at the top of your launch unit your timer pulls your Antenna out for you on your radio. Antennas are simple. Just keep them straight and long. Larry Taylor KF6JBG FCC licensed Communications Tech. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web http://home.earthlink.net/~cvrcsoaring/cvrc.htm CD for Visalia Fall Soaring Festival Oct. 4th and 5th 2003 Club Web Site: www.cvrcsoaring.com
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