thanks for your reply thermosstoys- you are helping greatly and I appreciate it..
Thanks, you are welcome
so to confirm-both of the p2v camera's VTX's 2 STOCK circularly polarized antennas are
LHCP and
not RHCP..? (not planning on changing the camera/VTX's antennas) ...Harder to find LHCP clover leafs etc.. just trying to match on the repeater end with a correctly circularly polarized antenna..
Correct, the stock antennas are LHCP
I currently have this 14dbi patch antenna-
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003CFATOC/ref ... E06YCPLW6X Great linear patch antenna.
and these 2 U.FL Mini PCI to RP-SMA Pigtail Antenna WiFi Cables
http://www.amazon.com/U-FL-RP-SMA-Pigta ... 005UWD0EG..
Link didn't work for me, but I'm sure they are fine. It will not make a real world difference, but if given the choice I use rg178 cables for permanent installations.
I was thinking of getting this 8dbi omini directional antenna to swap out from the patch when more convenient...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6833997226 or this more portable smaller 5dbi equivalent-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6833997208 Both good omni antenna's
however, should I
Instead get this 2.4Ghz cloverleaf circularly polarized antenna (it is RHCP though)
http://www.readymaderc.com/store/index. ... cts_id=813 instead of the 8dbi or 5dbi linear omnidirectional antennas?
A great antenna, I'm a BIG IBCrazy fan, but for this situation I'd go with Skew Planar rather than Cloverleaf.(would the clover leaf produce better range than the 5dbi, 8dbi or even 14dbi linear antennas above)?
There is not a simple answer, the linear antennas have higher gain and theoretically greater range, but it also depends on the ontenna on the other side and flying conditionsShould this antenna be RHCP or LHCP (connected to the VRX/repeater only based on which way you confirm the stock camera/VTX's antennas are polarized)? Cloverleaf or skew planar? (Should I get rid of the huge 14 dbi patch antenna altogether and get this 9dbi helical antenna instead of the patch (also RHCP or LHCP equivalent):
http://www.readymaderc.com/store/index. ... cts_id=487 Another great IBCrazy antenna. Personally I would / will go with a Skew Planar and Helical. It's not that much more inconvenient than the whips and produces better overall results for me.
So amplifiers can indeed make a difference connected to the receiver (as opposed to transmitter)? (I would think the transmitted signal could and would only be amplified..you can amplify an incoming (unamplified) signal to the VRX/repeater for better reception also?
Yes, most amps are bidirectional and will also amplify RX signal, but the overall effect will be much less than amplifying TX.So the 6db antennuators in the above ebay link you posted would best over the 3db ones?
In my situation they are best, although either will work fine (I initially used 3db and it worked fine but after testing my stock TX output, I switched to 6db).
You mentioned also in an earlier post that you can upgrade the stock p2v TX/remote controller 5.8GHz antenna to a 7dbi whip or 11 dbi patch- are there any specific proven versions of these antennas you can recommend and any specific info anywhere already posted on how to change the stock TX antenna? I use this
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E37BPKA/ref ... 1_ST1_dp_1 and this
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... OC:US:3160
Gratefully,
Justin