The antennas on the remote controls of two-antenna Phantoms have a rectangular cross-section. Intuitively, I'm guessing that having the broad sides of the antenna blades toward the aircraft is better than having the thin sides toward the aircraft. Also, the remote control seems designed to position the antennas that way, because that's the orientation in which they can be leaned back toward the top of the remote control.
But does it matter? Here's the reason I ask:
The remote control of the Autel Robotics X-Star has antennas with a similar shape, but they cannot be angled back toward the remote control with the broad sides of the antenna facing the aircraft. I'm thinking this is a design flaw, but it's also possible that it doesn't matter. I don't have enough knowledge of how the antennas work to know. All I know is that the antennas work better when they are more or less perpendicular to the invisible line between the RC and the aircraft. To do this I need to angle the antennas back towards me.
And here's why I need to know: I'm getting ready to put some passive parabolic reflecting antenna boosters on my X-Star, and would like to file the mounting hole of each booster so that I can lean the antenna back, rather than mounting the boosters so that the antenna are only able to stick straight up from the top of the RC.
I'd appreciate actual knowledge. Speculation and guessing are things I don't need help with.
But does it matter? Here's the reason I ask:
The remote control of the Autel Robotics X-Star has antennas with a similar shape, but they cannot be angled back toward the remote control with the broad sides of the antenna facing the aircraft. I'm thinking this is a design flaw, but it's also possible that it doesn't matter. I don't have enough knowledge of how the antennas work to know. All I know is that the antennas work better when they are more or less perpendicular to the invisible line between the RC and the aircraft. To do this I need to angle the antennas back towards me.
And here's why I need to know: I'm getting ready to put some passive parabolic reflecting antenna boosters on my X-Star, and would like to file the mounting hole of each booster so that I can lean the antenna back, rather than mounting the boosters so that the antenna are only able to stick straight up from the top of the RC.
I'd appreciate actual knowledge. Speculation and guessing are things I don't need help with.