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Oh, yeah, I posted an illustration of that remember? Showing the wider fields the lower the dB rating, I think our 9s are 15*, or 360*X15* . So, do you have a 15? If you do, how much better is it then the 12 or 9? I'd think you could fly higher, close to the house or setup with a lower dB but who cares right? By the time I'm close again I can lower to whatever below 400' again.Sounds great! Will check it out.
yeaa i remember your trees around... Working on the telescopic mast currently. Got tge parabolic antennas. Going for test tmrw.
there is quite cheap 6m telescopic masts that you can winch up when needed.
a self tensioning cable roller for the Lmr400 you can get for 80$. It saves headache with the cable-mess.
Your amps sound interesting. Question: What angle do the hawking antennas cover? The longer, the less angle. There are 2 meter tp-link with 360x6 degrees at 15dbi.My 12dbi got 360x12 degree.
good to hear some good news from your tests!
Had to land in almost complete darkness, lucky I had changed out my darker polarized lens (water shots) right before the test flight, it was a calm as it was gonna get and running out of light, what's worse is my wife turned off the porch light! Lol I was counting on that. The other day, she was in backyard, from time I took off, to the time I came back, what 15-20 minutes right, she's filled up my landing spot, and is sweeping, now I figured buzzing her and hovering she'd get it figured out, well not my Debbie, nope, keeps on a sweeping, I'm screaming at top of my lungs, of course she can't hear me, omg, even after I went and told her "I am trying to land! What r u doing!?" She was indignant! She still thinks we need only the 1 sq ft we utilize for our footprint, I even tried to explain to her about the flat 2D and depth perception and just, I need, I want an 8X8' area to land, I need a 4X4' and if your better then that, then, that's some good flying, instrument landings are the hardest part, and some have better, easier access. I'm gonna take a video and post it, I'm about flying more then the camera, but I am a hobby photographer so I'm capable, I take great smooth rolling footage, I will, Mark that here and now post a video in a few weeks that shows some of my talent, what little there is, but a windy landing lousy with "old ladies" and her rubbish, pushing darkness, is the most intense flying I've encountered, besides this, flew into a thick cloud other day, didn't really want to, but, it was thick too, as soon as I did, pow, lost all data coming back, both channels, I was like "this isn't good" and took quite a while before I got it back, I was worried about too much moisture and it shorting out, plus, being upwind, on a RTH trajectory, it wouldn't stayed in the cloud for quite a while! Lol!
Well thanks to sim597 with his find of the 1watt amp with the dc injector I've decided to move forward with changing the house setup. I also ordered 140ft of lmr600 and a huge l-com 11dbi antenna. I will attach the antenna and amp to a 20ft pole and strap the pole to the tree having the antenna tower above the tree line about 65ft in the air!.
I can tell you more on Sunday after testing all the equipment deep in some forest area with no Wifi for 12 miles.Oh, yeah, I posted an illustration of that remember? Showing the wider fields the lower the dB rating, I think our 9s are 15*, or 360*X15* . So, do you have a 15? If you do, how much better is it then the 12 or 9? I'd think you could fly higher, close to the house or setup with a lower dB but who cares right? By the time I'm close again I can lower to whatever below 400' again.
I have an outside search LED that fills back yard, it's like a 30W LED and puts out real light, but the wife turned the lights off too, lolOk yeah I forgot to mention for night flying I use a Philips hue go. You can unplug it and it's battery operated to. I just take it out side and put it in the gravel bed that I launch from. Leave it lit during takeoff or use the app on your phone to turn it on when u are ready to land. When hdmi out is used there is a v in the center of the screen. Just line that up with the light and come straight down.
Haha my freaking dog runs off with my hue no way to land without it. To tight for rthI have an outside search LED that fills back yard, it's like a 30W LED and puts out real light, but the wife turned the lights off too, lol
Specs are insane, like 23 or 24dB REAL dB too, and I think 17dB on RX it works, it works excellently.I can tell you more on Sunday after testing all the equipment deep in some forest area with no Wifi for 12 miles.
I use antenna switch(couplers) to connect both directional and omnidirectional. With the motorized pan/tilt I follow the bird gently when reaching 2km. Then the narrow field is big enough to listen to the bird's signal.
strange thing I noticed is that when having the omni antennas closer to each other the signal is better. Can it be that the amps amplify everything more when "cross-feeding" the signal from one antenna to the other?
A proper Tx/Rx gain can only be reached if the amp is able to listen low noise and with high input sensitivity on the Rx side. From the RC the signal is anyway strong enough. How are your 1W amps? Have you got specs?
Oh yeah, in a real RTH situation, I'm screwed, I don't think it would not hit a tree, the RTHs I've had I just turn off when I regain signal, thought I had a RTH other day, waited and waited, nothing, get signal, it's still sitting there as it never lost FC! Lol coulda eaten up a battery doing that, so be warned, hit the RTH or turn off remote for a sec if in doubt.Haha my freaking dog runs off with my hue no way to land without it. To tight for rth
Been there! Done that! Ditched mine nearly 3 miles from home on an island in the middle of the bay in a large dog park that was closed at night. Would have drowned otherwise! Took half an hour for me to get there! Biggest risk was someone else finding it before me, and running off with the aircraft, if they saw it land! Got lucky! Not a scratch on it! Got a battery mod now!Crash landing!
Birds ok, had to drive a few blocks away, auto-land kicked in, so I landed at 9% while in auto-land, but only because it was the best place out of lousy places to pick.
I was still like 8,000ft out and all the sudden my battery dropped to 30%! One time drop of like 10-15% I honestly can't tell you, but I was over water and barely made it. Landed it in the front yard of some McMansion, made that decision early on, was like "it's not gonna make it" started sweating and shaking, I did a 19,000 ft run earlier no problem, only did about 16,000 on this one, battery sank on me, it was close to totaled, so I picked a spot I knew I could drive to relatively easy, the island I almost landed on, I can't even get too, need to be uber wealthy just to drive across the bridge. (Small island like 10 houses, maybe 20) ****, well, I guess I needed that, didn't turn around, even considered turning off that "smart return" feature, lol ON THIS FLIGHT WHEN IT SAID TURN AROUND! Lol so, I'll be leaving it on, she **** near went into the drink, oh, and the LED went out too, so a landing here woulda been extra rough low batt, with my trees close to my house, I made the right move. Of course as it went in I lost signal, I was out of the house and in the Challenger Before she landed proper, it was a front yard with no trees, awesome grass, lake view, nice house, so as Inwas making decisions, that seemed like the best bet, seemed better then having it fall out of air, or be closer, but lousy with trees. Let that be a lesson, sometimes it's better to find a good spot then keep getting closer, once you've crossed that threshold, make the decision then follow thru with most important thing, cleared area, so what if you have to drive 3 more block? You already are in trouble, that was my train of thought, I'm like "I'm already in deep here, I've got one, maybe two shots" I crossed off the water, at 12% battery left, whew! Just, whew! I wasn't even gonna do another flight today, but did, almost cost me a huge stomach ache, thought I'd be the fist to see if State Farm takes care of us
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Been there! Done that! Ditched mine nearly 3 miles from home on an island in the middle of the bay in a large dog park that was closed at night. Would have drowned otherwise! Took half an hour for me to get there! Biggest risk was someone else finding it before me, and running off with the aircraft, if they saw it land! Got lucky! Not a scratch on it! Got a battery mod now!
All supply's are in. Lmr-600 140ft and look at the size of that l-com antenna!