I have been using a Skydroid OTG receiver to fly until I get a chance to buy some proper goggles and thought about the possibility of improving the signal a bit.
I’m no antenna expert so please excuse if the question is a bit dumb…
Can I plug any antenna, with the proper connector (not that dumb lol), into the receiver or is there a limitation as to what type I can use? (ie the antenna being overpowered for the receiver or something)
So no risk of frying the receiver with a “wrong” antenna and rather just the case of not having reception?
From my very limited understanding on this matter,… If the transmitter is linear than I can use either RCHP or LCHP ? Assuming this is the case, my whoop has a linear antenna on the vtx and I was planning on putting a circular on the receiver (rchp)
I actually bought one already, a pagoda 2 from unmanned tech, just waiting to arrive… lol should’ve asked before buying, but this hadn’t occurred to me before doing so…
Mostly down to having a number of drones and some with one and some with the other.
I also like the odd eBay bargain and don’t care which way as I can often swap em.
I can understand the “addictiveness” of it as I already am starting to feel it. If not for the fact that I can’t spend much right now I would have a bunch of stuff already …
Btw, I received the antenna a few minutes ago and happy to report that nothing has blown up yet. From within the flat, the image is displaying as expected maybe a little better, but its not a good comparison spot. Weather permitting tomorrow, I’ll test it out on a couple of places I’ve been flying an evaluate if there are any improvements.
Will post back with results…
It’ll be range hopefully that improves a bit with a better antenna! I got some menace RC ones recently, and made a big difference to what I had before. Also screw them on tight! I get all RHCP for drones and goggles, pick a side, and stick to it I reckon!
Pretty much my thoughts… Although in my case it won’t be for proper range, at least not yet, its more of improving signal on my surroundings.
Just trying to make a cheap thing function a bit better, even though its already better than what I expected from the get go…
Well TBH a decent set of antennas you can carry forward to your next goggles (unless you switch to digital). Actually pretty sure HDZero be OK, DJI probably not… Not 100% on that