Antenna Mods

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- January 23, 2003 at 6:56 pm #11600
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  Has anyone tried the antenna mod where you wind it around a cotton tip and get this cool looking twirly antenna?
  
  What does it do for your range? Worse/better/same?:question:
- January 23, 2003 at 7:10 pm #44456
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  cotton tip? thats pretty thick!
  is that on the car or the handset?
  I have done the car one with dual cat 5 cable core’s that increases the range by about 3 meters, but a pain if you have 2 cars racing different tracks in a large room with the same frequencies.
  
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- January 23, 2003 at 7:13 pm #44457
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  Yep I’ve done it…
  
  It didn’t really change the range. I’m pretty sure that’s because the lenght of the antenna didn’t change, although with the antenna standing a bit shorter, theoretically it should decrease the range slightly.
  
  But I then decided to un-curl it and unknot the antenna under the PCB to extend the antenna hoping for a extra boost in range… No real noticible increase tho… maybe 10cm or so for the stutter free range…
  
  btw, I think that the antenna is glued onto the plastic PCB cover on some of the compacts.
  
  Hope that helps
  
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- January 23, 2003 at 7:58 pm #44459
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  it’s really just a cosmetic mod “makes it look COOOOL” like adding decals or some thing
  
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- March 2, 2003 at 11:26 pm #45333
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  yeah i found that the antenna was glued (looked melted) to the pcb cover
  
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- March 2, 2003 at 11:46 pm #45334
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  your antenna was seriously glued to tha PCB??
  whoa that sux, my PCb was glued down but i popped it off with a thin plate scrwedriver. all my BCG pCB clipped off easy, but my compact ones :angry:
  
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- March 3, 2003 at 12:04 am #45335
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  yeh compact ones are made glued down …
  
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- March 3, 2003 at 1:19 am #45338
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  yeah it really PISS me off how they are glued down but then the bits from japan the PCB covers just jump off :angry:
  
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- March 3, 2003 at 4:42 pm #45339
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  o well you can open them fairly easily, just be careful 🙂
  
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- March 3, 2003 at 5:51 pm #45342
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  its good that they are glued doen cause one of mine has a tendancy to jump off in a horror smash..i think its bent or something
  
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