Oh, interesting. I personally haven't used that feature (I didn't create the mod from scratch, just cloned and fixed things), so never ran into this, but it sounds like the code just isn't checking the checkmark's state to enable the whole thing -- likely an easy fix. I've been slammed with work and not playing lately, but I'll see if I can get this working properly this weekend. I've been meaning to dive back into this mod to fix some issues with being on a ship from SE as well.
As an aside, signal wires should be as long as their electrical equivalents, so 64 tile power poles should be able to transmit signal wires 64 tiles as well. Is that not what you are seeing? Or am I misunderstanding your issue?