Can you boost Mavic's Rx Capabilities GPS/Reception?

[MavicFT1P]

Seeing people modify their controller to achieve better range/or quality signal through the controller;
I couldn't help but wonder if it's possible to modify the Mavic AC's receiving capabilities to achieve the same end?

Even as im writing this, It's occuring to me the Mavic's Rx capabilities likely outweigh, or are on par with whatever the Tx can provide, so the gains would be diminishing.
But still I'm, curious if anyone has gotten improved signal Quality/range through modding of the the Aircraft aswell?

Edit: Basically Im interested if you can pimp your Mavic at AC level to get a GPS/READY TO GO signal where you would
usually just get ATTI/OPTI or MAG INTERFER

 

[sar104]

Your question is confusing - it seems as first that you are asking about improving the data link to the RC, but then you switch to talking about GPS.

With regard to the GPS, you might be able to rig a high-sensitivity GPS antenna on the outside of the aircraft, but I've not seen anyone try that.

 

[brett8883]

Seeing people modify their controller to achieve better range/or quality signal through the controller;
I couldn't help but wonder if it's possible to modify the Mavic AC's receiving capabilities to achieve the same end?

Even as im writing this, It's occuring to me the Mavic's Rx capabilities likely outweigh, or are on par with whatever the Tx can provide, so the gains would be diminishing.
But still I'm, curious if anyone has gotten improved signal Quality/range through modding of the the Aircraft aswell?

Edit: Basically Im interested if you can pimp your Mavic at AC level to get a GPS/READY TO GO signal where you would
usually just get ATTI/OPTI or MAG INTERFER

The Mavic uses a dual tx/rx design so boosting one boosts the other. There’s no need to modify the aircraft to improve signal power coming from the aircraft to get better range.

There’s a firmware patch you can do to enable Galileo GPS service thus gaining more possible satellites to lock on to but I haven’t gotten to this yet.

o-gs/DJI_FC_Patcher

 

[Nfhill]

The only way to improve the range over the stock mono-pole antennae is to make the antennas directional. This is possible on the controller because it is easy to keep the directional antennas pointed at the Mavic. Making the antennas on the Mavic directional wouldn't work well because the Mavic won't have a fixed orientation towards the controller. The result would be good connection when the Mavic antenna is pointed back at the controller and absolutely lousy connection otherwise.

Changing the GPS antennas would be very difficult. They are tightly integrated into the GPS modules.

Nick

 

[brett8883]

The only way to improve the range over the stock mono-pole antennae is to make the antennas directional. This is possible on the controller because it is easy to keep the directional antennas pointed at the Mavic. Making the antennas on the Mavic directional wouldn't work well because the Mavic won't have a fixed orientation towards the controller. The result would be good connection when the Mavic antenna is pointed back at the controller and absolutely lousy connection otherwise.

Changing the GPS antennas would be very difficult. They are tightly integrated into the GPS modules.

Nick

Nice explanation ?

 

[Thomas B]

The only way to improve the range over the stock mono-pole antennae is to make the antennas directional. This is possible on the controller because it is easy to keep the directional antennas pointed at the Mavic. Making the antennas on the Mavic directional wouldn't work well because the Mavic won't have a fixed orientation towards the controller. The result would be good connection when the Mavic antenna is pointed back at the controller and absolutely lousy connection otherwise.

Changing the GPS antennas would be very difficult. They are tightly integrated into the GPS modules.

Nick

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[MavicFT1P]

Your question is confusing - it seems as first that you are asking about improving the data link to the RC, but then you switch to talking about GPS.

With regard to the GPS, you might be able to rig a high-sensitivity GPS antenna on the outside of the aircraft, but I've not seen anyone try that.

Reading it back this morning I can see it was a tad convoluted. Typos, etc.

Thanks for the replies anyway people

The only way to improve the range over the stock mono-pole antennae is to make the antennas directional. This is possible on the controller because it is easy to keep the directional antennas pointed at the Mavic. Making the antennas on the Mavic directional wouldn't work well because the Mavic won't have a fixed orientation towards the controller. The result would be good connection when the Mavic antenna is pointed back at the controller and absolutely lousy connection otherwise.

Changing the GPS antennas would be very difficult. They are tightly integrated into the GPS modules.

Nick

Thanks especially Nick, that was exactlty the question and more I was curious about.
Cheers

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