today, I skipped ahead in my swift patrol boat to put the antennae on, and I used a segmant of a used cello D string, and it looked grrrreat!
to obtain the cello string, i just asked my orchestra teacher if I could take the set of strings in the trashcan. he said yes, so I have antennae!
I can't use one of mine because I play the violin and I think it's too thin, and the cello string was free!
so like that guy said in the FSM magazine a couple of months ago, when you go to a music store, look for something useful. in this case, a cheap cello D string.
I think any D string would work, except the cello's is longer. bass's is too thick.
I looked around in my LMS and they were selling beginner D's for around 4 bucks.