Originally Posted by Duster_360

You can see a diff in range when you range check with the antenna wire completely run thru the tube and hanging out versus bundling the extra in the rcvr box or somewhere inside the rc.

I push maybe a 1/4" back in the tube then put the cap on it to hold it. I use a piece of heat shrink to secure the rest of the antenna wire rather than let it just be loose. I used to use a piece of fuel tubing, but the heat shrink is 'cleaner'. It makes it less of a hassle taking body on/off. I thionk its also less likely to get damaged or torn off this way too.

One other thing I've started doing to help save the antenna tube a little - I drill a new antenna tube hole at an angle so when a rollover happens the tube isn't at 90degrees to the slide. Seems to help. I use nylon tubes made by Yokomo - they're longer than most of my rtr tubes and they don't kink as easily as the rtr tubes do.