I have an old Xterminator Pro fuselage with an XP3 aileron wing that had terrible glitch problems. I ran the antenna inside the boom, wrapped around the boom and straight down the boom and nothing worked. I finally glued a piece of very thin music wire to the back of the wing inside the aileron cutout with foam safe CA.. The cutout is about 1/8" wide and the wire doesn't come even close to getting in the way of the aileron. I glued it inside the wing opposite the throwing peg to help with the balance of the wing.
I cut off a piece of the original antenna the same length as the music wire and soldered the music wire to the part that was left. I cut off one pin of a Dean's connector and put in in a break in the antenna so I could unplug it when I took the wing off. If you did this on a new build, you could just use a connector for your ailerons that had one more pin and plug everything in at once. The good news....Since putting the antenna in the wing, I haven't had a single glitch. Before putting it there I was getting hit 4 or 5 times a flight. Buddy Roos -----Original Message----- From: Jared [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 10:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [RCSE] Antenna Info All, Thanks for all the fast replies! Looks like I'm just going to throw out the T thing and do a single wire in one of the wings :) Any suggestions on doing this? Do I actually need to route a tunnel or if I use a fairly small wire, .02" diameter, could I get away with just laying it on top/bottom of the foam? Jared RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
