HPI Nitro 3 - Newbie question - antennae length?

[cornycob]

Hi,

First time using the forum so hello and please go easy!
Just purchased a HPI Nitro 3 with the brother in law so as to hopefully get into the hobbie

Have run into an issuebefore even starting the car though!
Going through the manual setup it states that the antennae length should come to the top of the antennae pipe and not to shortern it.

Having located the antennae wire this is extremely short and nothing like in the manual... after feeding it round to the pipe it will literally only go up the pipe around 1-2 inches max.

Please see the attached image for an example of the length.

I have emailed the online shop I purchased from but thought I would put a thread up on here to get your views regarding this.

Thanks for all your help in advance

Mike + George

 

[robmob]

You're fine.

The wire on a 2.4ghz receiver is a lot shorter than old school FM/AM receivers which is probably what is being shown in the manual.

 

[cornycob]

Thanks for your help...


So should I still feed this into the pipe even though it only goes slightly up it?
Do you have to use the pipe or can you simply have the antennae attached safely inside as i presume as these are stronger signals it possibly wont matter?

Mike

 

[robmob]

You should have it stick up as much as possible so you don't limit range.

 

[cornycob]

Thanks ... I am sure I will run into a more worthwhile issue that needs to be posted here in the future lol

 

[Greywolf74]

Spray some windex or something in teh tube before running the wire up in it....that cuts down on the friction and has actually helped me more than once to thread an antenna wire through a tube that was a tight fit.