Flying from inside house or car anyone?
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Still the black 3 watt suhan powered by wall outlet. What battery do you mean?
Drone side. When I've gone out 10,000ft, coming back made me nervous with remaining battery level upon return. Winds eat up more.
Oh not going there yet. X2 stock batteries. It really cuts through the wind tho. When it dies down I will push it further. Can't get ahold of dji about props and may exchange it first.
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After a couple years over on the Inspire 1 forum I found this thread. Been looking for a signal solution like this. Tired of video drop out past 4800' and in congested areas ......Couple of RF Linx 2400SAXU amps (yes they had some left on ebay for 50.00), LMR400 cable, Lcom 9dbi antennas. transmitter cable mod kit, various connectors and adpaters and my 2004 H2.......... As soon as the rest of the connectors and antennas show up I'll post some pics of the installation. Thanks in advanced for all the hard work and research. Great Idea!
Make sure you're familiar with either injecting or bypass power with the SAXU's (discussed earlier in thread).
The biggest downside to this type of extreme mods is the uncontrollable giggling that happens when the drone can cross state lines. Doctors have no cure yet.
You didn't waste any money good times for you ahead. Sounds like you have everything and install should be simple. Keep us updated!
Spent a week planning/buying materials. Finally got the RF-Linx mounted. Ready to test, and they better work. Got them a month ago and havn't even had a chance to test yet. Was waiting for LMR-400 cables and various N connectors. I'm also fabricating mounts for my TP-Link panels for this tripod mounted method. The mounts are interchangeable with each antennas mate surface to the tripod.73771[/ATTACH]
Good grief I can't wait to hear how this works out.
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Nice McGyver skills. Love it! I'll dare to guess that your replicating the backside of your mounting bracket for the extendable mast for easy switch out?
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Yeah, solder onto the jack and ground and cut the squiggly line. Got it. Just a couple questions. What 12v power supply for the amps? I was going to power from the car battery but understand the regulated power scenario to reduce noise. The other question here is are you all using the bird side mod to achieve this or is that necessary?
Power: Could use car battery, but running engine/fan/heater/radio would introduce noise.
I use regulated dedicated supply:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005T7EZM8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Or use any suitable plug in supply as long as it's at least 2 amps. I have a 110 volt power inverter (cig lighter plug into car socket)
It might just me but the bird side amp mod is worthless. Get up and running and learn the limitations of your system then try that stuff out. For me the mod killed my range and it's just another point of failure to worry about. I would never try it again.
I tried 2 crazy pony 3 db planar pinwheels. I had no rf tester at the time so I have no idea which ports they were plugged into. Got out to 6,000-8,000 ft lost video signal. BUT, as I turned back in video signal was ok. possibly I had them plugged in wrong, or using wrong antennas. I am considering 4, 7 db antennas on the drone, but got so many mods running in production I can't keep up currently. ( I heard you laughing JohnnyB).
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