Well, I can't find those darn U.FL connectors so the factory aircraft antennas will have to wait. I put the bird back together and started to test external antennas.
I started with the circular antennas I found on eBay. This did not go well, I took off and 20' up and already at 3 bars of signal. Those were a fail. I suspect the merchant mislabeled these as 2.4, but from the size they look like 5.8gHz.
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Then I got this error below. I have never done this calibration so I will go look it up now.
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Once I get her flying again, next on the menu are these 6dBi gain omni's.
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