 light on the subject. Alright, hey there YouTube. I'm going to show you how simple it has been for me to upgrade my little Sima X5C and this is a great quadcopter. I'd suggest for anybody that wants to go into this sort of thing to get one of these to play around with because they're absolutely fantastic. But this little Sima X5C runs on 2.4GHz frequency and the antenna that you have in the controller is basically just a piece of wire. It's a piece of wire cut specifically for the length of that frequency but it's just a piece of wire. So there are some upgrades you can do now. The way I've done mine is I had an old neck gear router. I had this old neck gear router. I haven't used it for years. I've been keeping it keeping it, telling myself I might be able to use it for something. But as I have equipment that I use rather than this, this is surplus to me. It's old. It's got to be at least 12 years old and it's not used to me anymore. So, the aerial. It has a little aerial on it. Now I used to smoke years ago and that's what happened when you smoke. There was excessive heat as well. From this book, at least that's what happens when you're in a house full of smokers. I don't smoke anymore so that's not a problem anymore. But it gives me this little aerial. It doesn't just give me no little aerial. It also gives me the connections part that I need to screw into and it also gave me the wire off that now. On the Simon controller you can see in front of me. You think, oh it's got that. It's got an aerial sticking out the top. Look how deep that has to go in. That's just a dummy. That's a fake. You know this little piece of wire that I just showed you, which is the stock antenna. That doesn't even go in this. It's not loose like that sticking out the top. That's just inside. Just inside here. Not doing anything. And that's just there for show. It's there. Just cosmetics. So let's take a little look inside here. Now I've already taken out the screws. At least as many as I can without getting into a little fight with it. There we go, there we go. Now I must admit what I did with mine was got a little of these bits and I unsoldered here. I unsoldered there because it was going to make my life easier. And as you can see I've already put a couple of the screws back in here. Let me just put these two out. Can't seem to get my hands to get where I want to. Let's just put these screws out. Put them somewhere where I can find them in. No, they're coordination. Okay, and the front film should come off anyway. Let's turn that back again. Should probably take the actress out. Now, with these disconnected, I'm going to do that. Life is a lot easier. I wouldn't even bother trying to do this unless you want to cut these wires and splice them back together again. Or you can desolder. Chances are you'll have a soldering iron anyway because you need to desolder the little wire that comes out of here. I don't need to show you a little wire again. I've lost it. I haven't really seen it somewhere. It would be terrible if it wasn't a little wire. I've lost it already. But never mind. Basically, I'm going to show you. I don't think half these fell out last time. Just while we wait for the soldering iron to heat up. That's enough. It doesn't really matter. When you take these off, when you place them back here, there's a separation between the two. That's almost like the separation here. But on top of that, there's a plus mark where the plus goes. So, no problem. No problem. All right, now that's off. We can just disconnect that and turn this round. And so, just on this little board here, which seems to be a little crystal there. So this is for the frequency. The transmitter part. That little piece of wire was just soldered to this. Right to where that little tab is there that I've soldered my piece of wire to. It was soldered to that. And I did nothing to this. I took this piece of wire from the board in the router, as is. Just unsoldered it from its own little tab and just soldered it onto there. And all I've done really is I've wrapped it in electrical tape, electrical insulation tape. And it's allowed me to fit this in here and then I'll just hot-snot it, hot-glued it, whatever, in place. Which means if I ever want to, I can just pull it back out again. I'm not super glued or anything. I can pull it back out again because I wrapped tape around the threads. It'll be easy for me just to unwrap that rather than trying to get glue and all sorts from it and reuse it somewhere else. But what a simple little upgrade. And that's just using an old antenna. That was going to have absolutely no use for anything. But like I said, I've had it for years and years and kept telling myself I'll use it. There we go. There we go into its position for usage. Absolute brilliant. I don't know. I've not done a range test on it. I've not actually done a range test on it. It's not too great weather out there. It's quite blowy at the moment. So this little thing can't be taken out of this little thing when it's all blowy. I'll take out the other one to help some. But yeah, so simple as you like. Like I say, all you've got to do is just undo those. And if you're worried about the power connections, like I said, you don't even need to be looking at it. You just got to know that, you know, if you put it flat back there, these wires have got a gap between them. Same as what these have in there. And they just go to wherever. But you can. There's a plus sign just on the back of this anyway. So it's not a biggie. Yeah, simple. But I'm going to get double the range. One, because the antenna is going to be on the outside. And secondly, because it's a large antenna for radiation. And if it's used, because a lot of people put the antennas up, the signal might come out the top or something. But isn't it radiates from the sides? In actual fact, this is not a dead zone, but it's not a gooder zone. The radiation zone is what the sides are. If you've got the drone in front of you, if you radiate from the sides here, you've got a lot better signal strength to the actual, to the quadcopter. So there you go. That's it. That's all I wanted to show you on this one. I've done the same thing, which is a little bit different for the Hobson. I'll show you that as well. I'm sorry, I didn't make a video of me actually doing this. I'm not interested, but some of you have already asked about the Hobson, so I'm going to do one for that. And this thing as well, because you get the bottom piece with the screw threads, it's got the fittings. It literally slots in here, and it's named for good fit, but you do need to wrap a little something around it to get it nice and solid. And then if you have got like a glue gun, it gives you this, you know, the glue, that's even great, because while it's still soft, you just put the back on, just to make sure that it all moulds in nicely. So all this is like quite well moulded in. And it works great. That's super perfect. As you can see now, all this down here is all dummies. None of these buttons do anything on this. It's just dummies. This lights up, this is good. It gives a display of the voltage power that's in the batteries. It lets you know. It's quite good if you want to learn sensitivity on these sticks, so you actually get to see on the little display here what's being used. Anyway, jibber jibber jibber. I see it, my little Simon update for the controller. Putting in the new transmission right on. Thank you for watching guys. Bye.