My set of Skyreat Aluminum Parabolic reflectors arrived this afternoon from Amazon.com. I could not wait to test them so I simply slipped them on over the existing stock antennas, powered up the Phantom 4 and flew out to 1,850 feet at 145 feet altitude. I had a clear line from the antennas to the drone and the signal registered 100%. I then turned around 180 degrees and noted that the signal dropped to 68%! All other variables were unchanged. I landed and again repeated the test to the same spot and altitude and got almost the same results. I noticed that as I turned around, the signal started dropping at about 30 degrees and at 90 degrees, the signal was down to about 80%. I am going to further test the array when I have more time with a Litchi waypoint mission out to about a mile, again with a clear line of sight between the RC and the aircraft. I will come back here and post the results.
Has anyone else performed any sort of testing with a similar array? So far, I consider this $16.00 purchase a very worthy investment.
Thanks,
Jim
WA5TEF
Has anyone else performed any sort of testing with a similar array? So far, I consider this $16.00 purchase a very worthy investment.
Thanks,
Jim
WA5TEF