Hello everyone. Newbe here from Missouri. I received my Phantom a couple of weeks ago and have been playing with it extensively. I made a few maiden voyages in some open fields using GS. The problem I'm running into is I lose phantom connection when the bird is only 400 feet out. It continues on it's mission and completes it without issue, returning home. It will reconnect once its gets home and hovers at the preselected altitude. At any rate, it appears to be the wifi connection to the camera as I still have control with the controller. Is there any way to check the extender out to see if it's putting out what it's supposed to? I ordered off of Amazon instead of through a dealer so the only option I have I'm guessing is to send the bird and controller in to DJI. But I hate to wait no telling how long to get it back. Is there anything else I can check out on my own? I thought of cracking the extender open to see if there are any loose cables like for the antenna. I have the ITElite antenna mod on the way but there's still not something right and I'd like to fix whatever is wrong to get me at least up to where it should be with regards to distance performance before adding any enhancements. I've spent a few hours searching on this forum for similar issues but all I've found is where people have intermittent connection issues even with the bird close up. I have no connection issues as long as the bird is within a couple or three hundred feet. It clearly looks like a signal strength problem. Or at least it does to me. Any ideas? Thanks! BTW, I've never crashed it..............yet