Hi guys,
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)
cheers
It needs to be 5.8GHz and match the polarization of your VTX antenna. Though not if you are going linear.
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…
It will work but signal will be greatly reduced.
I’ve done it and nothing fried thankfully.
It’s good to know that it won’t fry anything, makes me less worried of trying it out. It’s expected to arrive soon so I’ll post back with results .
I have a collection of several for both sides.
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.
Nice…
I’m just starting out so my collection of anything is nonexistent…
It’s the vtx where a missing/bad antenna can fry things… Much, much higher voltages with nowhere to go.
On vrx side voltages are miniscule. No frying is possible. The voltages are coming from the air…
Cool, thx for explaining that. 
That’s how it starts.
I’ve flown drones for years and fpv for just over a year now.
I started with one and now have:
A DJI FPV
3 DJI HD quads
3 analog quads
2 that need rebuilding.
One project frame
And countless other parsts and accessories.
It gets very addictive
Nice fleet you got there…
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…
We’re mostly all in the same boat.
But fpv gods always find a way to tempt you 
It’s like the little devil on your shoulders… 
Some people fly without goggle antennas with a whoop indoors. It helps with multipathing (out of phase double reception)
Exactly that !!
Oh, that’s new. I’ll give it a try for sure, tks for the tip 
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 