Of course .... I would have to have someone outside - following the drone around VLOSNICE. Your inside doing this??
That was only a couple of thousand feet from my house before I ran into the hiker - so not really that far.What sort of range did you get
It's very likely that this "rig" isn't doing you any good. The larger whip antennas themselves (if they are even the correct length for the Mavic radio's wavelength) will do far more good than the dish. A small satellite dish like this one is designed for receiving a signal and focusing it onto dish LNB antenna. In order to make this effective you would need an actual feed horn that directs the signal onto the reflector. Omni directional whip antennas are not feed horns.Blasting thru the wall & the trees - cool, but excuse the low resolution video
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I believe FAA requires the PIC to have actual VLOS.Of course .... I would have to have someone outside - following the drone around VLOS
I don't know near as much as you about that. But ...I have both the Titan Atlas boosted antenna system ( Omni directional) and the Titan Cyclone boosted antenna system (Directional) and both sizes of their whip antennas.. neither one of these will let me go any where near as far through the trees (at two feet off the ground) by themselves. So I don't know.It's very likely that this "rig" isn't doing you any good. The larger whip antennas themselves (if they are even the correct length for the Mavic radio's wavelength) will do far more good than the dish.
I know, that's why I got that observer following the drone & watching out so those dang planes don't fly down in the trees and hit my frickin drone.I believe FAA requires the PIC to have actual VLOS.
And yet if what the user is reporting is true, then it’s very likely you are wrong. End of the day, evidence of such a setup vs other setups (as described by the OP) shows that it does work, and works very well. Sometimes theory vs real life doesn’t always match up.It's very likely that this "rig" isn't doing you any good. The larger whip antennas themselves (if they are even the correct length for the Mavic radio's wavelength) will do far more good than the dish. A small satellite dish like this one is designed for receiving a signal and focusing it onto dish LNB antenna. In order to make this effective you would need an actual feed horn that directs the signal onto the reflector. Omni directional whip antennas are not feed horns.
Its pretty likely that you are degrading the signal. if the distance between the whips and the reflector are not correct you can actually create harmonic signals that the transceiver on the drone sees as interference.
It's very likely that this "rig" isn't doing you any good. The larger whip antennas themselves (if they are even the correct length for the Mavic radio's wavelength) will do far more good than the dish. A small satellite dish like this one is designed for receiving a signal and focusing it onto dish LNB antenna. In order to make this effective you would need an actual feed horn that directs the signal onto the reflector. Omni directional whip antennas are not feed horns.
Its pretty likely that you are degrading the signal. if the distance between the whips and the reflector are not correct you can actually create harmonic signals that the transceiver on the drone sees as interference.