Alternate antenna ideas! - Page 10

xatu · #**136** 12-03-2002, 10:55 PM

How does it make it better? And, have you tried it?

seizurebot[rdf] · #**137** 12-04-2002, 01:40 PM

yes friend megazord. that is what saran-wrap does. it is electric so it will make you go very fast. electric is the thing that is fast in your engine like zoom.

TemjinNeo78 · #**138** 12-04-2002, 02:45 PM

i havent tried it....i did it lol and the range is excellent, a big step up.

xatu · #**139** 12-04-2002, 04:59 PM

So, I would just wrap it around my antenna? Or, are you just yanking my chain?

TemjinNeo78 · #**140** 12-04-2002, 06:08 PM

i was talking about the cat5 mod.

darkarchez · #**141** 12-04-2002, 07:08 PM

i did it.... copper wire super 25 feet baby!

xatu · #**142** 12-04-2002, 07:42 PM

Oh. BTW, nice car darkarchez!

darkarchez · #**143** 12-05-2002, 01:24 AM

thx man.... hey check this out .... i made a quick add .... it gave me 10 more feet by adding foil into my wire... omg dam man it had good max range when i put this piece of foil onto it check it

darkarchez · #**144** 12-05-2002, 02:25 PM

ok this foil mod ddint work that much.... but inspired of caver01
spring mod and foil mod... it really inspired to use a spring wire when i went outside and tested this mod , i recieve good results .. a small piece of wire gave me a big 53 feet!!! i was surpised of this feet for a smal silver spring wire i think the spring wire would give you better results than the copper wire.... because it gave me a big feet for a such small amount of spring

xatu · #**145** 12-06-2002, 05:07 PM

So, basically, you have a spring wire for the antenna, and you put tinfoil on the INSIDE of your car?

dumbnewbie · #**146** 12-06-2002, 09:04 PM

I might have missed it because 11 pages o fthis thread got a bit long, but has anyone tried using a copper pin to draw a long antenna inside the body of the car? If I remeber right Radio shack used to sell a copper pin that could be used for touch up work on pcb's. It would seem like this is the easiest way to route a long path of copper inside the car.

DavidDeLaurier · #**147** 12-06-2002, 09:57 PM

That has ben mentioned, but I don't know if it has been tried yet.

I used a spring and got a range of about 67 feet. (hard to measure with a normal measuring tape.

xatu · #**148** 12-06-2002, 10:54 PM

So, jsut a standard spring straightened out and soldered onto the chip works awesome?!?!? I will try that

xatu · #**149** 12-06-2002, 10:56 PM

Lol, I got one problem. Would I just use a spring out of a pen? Or, would I have to find another one?

darkarchez · #**150** 12-07-2002, 12:29 AM

well what i did is that i use a the led pencil ones you know the ones that are big... but before braking the led pencil be sure to make sure it is long enough before u stretch it.... i got mine off a led pencil.. i strecth it and soldered it on... it took a while before i got to solder it on because it stiffness totally irratating when u cant put it on.... but yeah when i went outside it was powerfull enough to go 53 feet.... with the foil mod...