Those omnidirectional wifi antenna I'm using till my dipole gets here, don't work nearly as good as the dipoles. I went out for a quick flight today in a suburban area that I normally do around 2000 meters, and my video was staring to go out at 1100 meters today and was starting to get weak at half that. I'll have to do a rural test flight later for a real test of them. At that location I was getting 3500 meters with stock birdside 2.4 GHz panels and my modded remote.
Nice. Let's get a prototype together. I have an extra rpsma cable laying around. Let's try and figure something out.
That looks like a midevil torture device.....cool though. How do we make it?This also looks interesting:
And then there's this:
5.8GHz Dipole kit for P2V+ Itelite panel - FPVLR
Which would be like what I was saying in post #147, but about $50 less. LOL
The point here is that it's not like you're going to get snow like on an analog television set, everything is digital nowadays. So the signal is there or it's lost. The wifi signal does have the technology in it to request a resend of lost data (to a point), but the control signal is going to be either had or not. In other words you need a properly tuned antenna and trying to jerry-rig something on your drone is not good in my opinion.
There's one theory of antennas which I don't have 100% grasp of but I'll point you in the right direction. If you're read the description of that product in your link it says circular polarized. My understanding is both ends AC and RC would need to be the same polarization, circular in this case. The other is linear polarization, like the DBS. From my understanding that would not be a good choice if you had a DBS antenna.
