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hehe, ya, they kinda suck sometimes if your not lucky. I've found that for some reason a sloppy soldering job = bad reception. Check out your board and I bet there's a big glob of solder where the antenna connects... not almost flat like it should be.
Here's what I did. I de-soldered the antenna and got all the excess solder off of mine. Then I got this thick speaker wire for my bass guitar rig... probably around 12 guage. I stripped that and took out a singly wire of the 80 or so that make up the twisted wire. I took mine off of the negative side (I've heard that since it's copper it does better). Then I just soldered that thing in there nice and clean like. It sticks up about 6 inches and flops around, and since it's so thin it looks really frail, but it never breaks or flops down to where it gets tangled in anything so I'm ok with it. It's no where near as easy to see as the stock one either since its sooo thin.
Reception will always be better outside (unless it's raining) than inside. But I still get 25-30 feet inside right now. Inside there just tends to be a lot of appliances and stuff causing electrical interference. A lot more than outside. Give it a try and let me know how you do.
I'm spending my time trying to find a good 3.6V Lithium Ion rechargeable to get in there and to figure out how to mod the recharger so I'll get full use out of my battery (I need a 4.2V charge going into it... exactly 4.2 v). That battery should just about tripple the motor speed though :-)
-Alex
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