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William Sommerwerck William Sommerwerck is offline
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Default Broken antenna on RC car

"JANA" wrote in message
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Antennas are tuned. Go to where you bought your
remote car and see if they can supply an original part.


Forgive me, but I find a lot of your postings misleading or non-factual.

Antennas are not, generally, "tuned". If tuning is required, it's usually
performed with a loading coil in the body of the transmitter. The only
consumer product I've ever seen with a loading coil in the antenna itself
was a Concord CB transceiver of 40 years ago. (The intent was to improve
radiation by moving the coild to the middle of the antenna.)

If the antenna is the correct length, it will radiate efficiently. You don't
need an OEM antenna.