Recent content by Dogman1973

It will work, but dont expect stellar results... you'll probably lose most of the benefits of MIMO beyond the stock omni range. MIMO derives maximum value from similar signals, but with slight phase shift, and obviously the signal on the stock antenna will drop away quicker than the other. I...

Those crosshairs look pretty good, so do his Helicals :-) 10dB would be nice for most applications... might look into these some more... being an RF nerd, I like spending time and money testing this stuff out! lol (much to my wife's dismay)

The higher altitude problem will be noise... The Solo will be 'hearing' more wifi noise from the ground across a wider area. Re the circ polarisation, I think andrew was suggesting a small cloverleaf for on the Solo (which has low gain say 1-2 dB). Circ pol has merit for this kind of...

Circ polarisation isnt a bad idea, although the major drawback is size vs gain... a few dB probably wont be enough though. For something in the order of 15dB gain, a helical circ pol antenna would be around 3ft long (and would have to be hand made) :-( @Greg-J , it'll also help to keep the Solo...

Ok so sounds like noise is your biggest enemy here... Both at the controller and the Solo. There arent really many options at the Solo end, so best chance really is to go higher gain (narrower beamwidth) antenna(s) on the controller. The theory being that with narrow beamwidth, you reduce the...

Location?

I also have 2 different types of "compatibles" with hacked up cables sitting in my drawer... both my Solo's have the MRO now... nuff said ;-)

How high up was it? I had a similar incident... but luckily the Solo recovered beautifully about 1 foot off the ground :-)

for Android i use 'GPS Status'

Not to mention having to replace all the antennas (Solo and Controller)

I'm sure some slip through... but shipping batteries only (as opposed to a product containing batteries) is what draws the attention :-/ The whole thing seems a bit messy.... I've had morons at airport security hassle me about mobile phone powerpacks claiming they'd be over the 160WH limit!!!!

Travelling safely with batteries and portable power packs | Civil Aviation Safety Authority As you can see the issue is all around lithium batteries in 'CHECKED' baggage. Hence when a postal carrier piggy backs their mail on a commercial passenger flight, it's effectively the same thing. If...

Flock of seaguls flew in while you were looking the other way apparently.

I believe the restriction is around lipo/lion batteries that are 'not inserted in their original equipment'. USPS, AusPost and probably most postal services have the restriction because of them 'piggybacking' their mail on commercial passenger flights (who dont allow separate lithium batteries)...

Oh, yeah dont use the wizard in MP, Solo has it's own set of pixhawk defaults... I think this thread/post has the best solution to reset the pixhawk defaults: Constant beeping alarm and magnetic interference