Mini se transmission problems in the UK

[JFB UK]

As an owner of a DJI mini se for the last 3 months in the Uk I thought the following point regarding transmission might be of interest to other users. I live in a small country town now almost surrounded by new housing developments, but as I normally fly no further out than 200 to 300 mtr radio contact is easily maintained. Being a CE dual band model set to automatic mode I had always assumed the drone would be flying on 2.4ghz frequency by default but on checking during a flight saw that it was on 5.8ghz. Tried to change in manual mode to 2.4ghz but although there were a few green channel bars as soon as one was selected that too turned to red. Although as I mentioned a new housing development as been built, most of the houses are not yet occupied so unlikely to be wifi interference from there preventing the use of 2.4ghz transmission. There is a mobile phone mast less than a hundred metres away so perhaps that is the problem. Anyone else had a similar experience?

 

[old man mavic]

@JFB UK unfortunately ,the Mini se uses the same enhanced WIFI as the original mavic mini
and it is more prone to interference ,than other newer mini drones that have occusync 2 and 3
it chooses the best frequency,for any given moment during the flight ,depending on available channels in either 2.4 or 5.8 ,and constantly channel hops depending on what it thinks is best

 

[JFB UK]

@JFB UK unfortunately ,the Mini se uses the same enhanced WIFI as the original mavic mini
and it is more prone to interference ,than other newer mini drones that have occusync 2 and 3
it chooses the best frequency,for any given moment during the flight ,depending on available channels in either 2.4 or 5.8 ,and constantly channel hops depending on what it thinks is best

Thanks for your reply, don't really want to fly further than 300mtr or so, just puzzled me why 2.4ghz can't be selected. Guess it must be that O2 mast signals causing the problem.

 

[GFields]

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[locknload595]

Be interesting if you can ever fly your drone again after changing to manual mode. Been lots of cases with the mini se of people changing to manual mode but after turning it off then back on the drone never connects to the controller again.
Good Luck
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[JFB UK]

Be interesting if you can ever fly your drone again after changing to manual mode. Been lots of cases with the mini se of people changing to manual mode but after turning it off then back on the drone never connects to the controller again.
Good Luck
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My drone is fine after trying manual but thanks for the tip. Will stick to auto select as that seems fine.

 

[EliteBleader]

The range on my SE is mostly fine as long as I fly from an elevated point and don’t go over too many houses. As old man mavic said, the enhanced WiFi transmission protocol really limits the range compared to the new occusync technology used on the new generation of DJI equipment.