Distance and altitude bests?

erikgraham · Aug 16, 2015

Hoover185 said:
I have gotten mine up a few times to 400' high, then I lose signal and it goes RTH. I have the app set to "no limit" but I suspect it's programmed to top out to keep us legal. Doesn't make sense that I can get over 3000' distance in the country but lose signal at 400' high in the same spot. Am I missing something?

The 400 feet could be your geofence, but if you went straight up above your head then that's the problem. Your in the Solos dead zone (it's antennas point down). gotta fly it out away from you horizontally first. Then go up.

erikgraham · Aug 16, 2015

Doug Benson said:
LMAO!

All kidding aside, I'm kinda wishing I'd known about the FPVLR before I ordered the Horizon Range Extender from DSLRPros - which hasn't even shipped yet. Folks seem to be really happy with the FPVLRs (and they look cool).

Hoover185 · Aug 16, 2015

erikgraham said:
The 400 feet could be your geofence, but if you went straight up above your head then that's the problem. Your in the Solos dead zone (it's antennas point down). gotta fly it out away from you horizontally first. Then go up.

Going to play with it today, but i have tried going up at about 800' distance, same thing.

Hoover185 · Aug 16, 2015

erikgraham said:
The 400 feet could be your geofence, but if you went straight up above your head then that's the problem. Your in the Solos dead zone (it's antennas point down). gotta fly it out away from you horizontally first. Then go up.

Also it loses signal at EXACTLY 400'...

Doug Benson · Aug 16, 2015

I went out today to a new Wi-Fi clean and clear area and the FPVLR showed its true meddle for as far as I was willing to go today any way.
350' up and 2500' out and still had 3 Bars and clean video!
That's pretty darn far and I got a little nervous cause I lost it on the horizon, Solo is pretty small at almost half a mile away!

Really, I wanted it to counter some Wi-Fi congestion.

Del · Aug 16, 2015

Doug Benson said:
I went out today to a new Wi-Fi clean and clear area and the FPVLR showed its true meddle for as far as I was willing to go today any way.
350' up and 2500' out and still had 3 Bars and clean video!
That's pretty darn far and I got a little nervous cause I lost it on the horizon, Solo is pretty small at almost half a mile away!
Really, I wanted it to counter some Wi-Fi congestion.

That's great to hear... I just ordered one for my Solo yesterday from there site..hope it comes in this week..really Looking forward to see the difrence and conpair it for myself..iv read lots of post on the FPVLR and Iv read nothing but good things..!

Happy flying

Raybro · Aug 16, 2015

Del said:
That's great to hear... I just ordered one for my Solo yesterday from there site..hope it comes in this week..really Looking forward to see the difrence and conpair it for myself..iv read lots of post on the FPVLR and Iv read nothing but good things..!

Happy flying

Got mine on order yesterday as well. Plan on doing some comparisons with the DBSMods antenna. I think they will come out to be about the same.

NYG · Aug 17, 2015

Hoover185 said:
Also it loses signal at EXACTLY 400'...

Are you using Android? The Android app has a bug where it won't go over 400', this limit however can be changed with Tower to get around it. The iOS app will recognize setting altitude to unlimited properly.

JOHN CUERVO · Aug 17, 2015

Janmit Virk said:
I've gotten out to about 2400ft on stock antennas, 8200ft with two of the ALFA panel antennas, and about 5600ft with the FPVLR. These flights were over a regional park at just under 400ft altitude but at different dates.

Wow ur a beast bro hahaha nice job

SteveReno · Aug 17, 2015

FPVLR said:
FPVLR.COM 3 miles with no amps

the rest is dust in the wind...

I think I'm ordering 1 of your units soon. But why do I feel that I won't get "3 miles" [emoji102]

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Hoover185 · Aug 17, 2015

NYG said:
Are you using Android? The Android app has a bug where it won't go over 400', this limit however can be changed with Tower to get around it. The iOS app will recognize setting altitude to unlimited properly.

I am, will try it, thanks.

NYG · Aug 17, 2015

Hoover185 said:
I am, will try it, thanks.

The parameter to change is FENCE_ALT_MAX and it's in meters. I have mine set at 300. So 300 meters is my current max altitude.

Del · Aug 18, 2015

FPVLR said:
FPVLR.COM 3 miles with no amps

the rest is dust in the wind...

Wow...that's insane !!!!

JOHN CUERVO · Aug 18, 2015

Del said:
Wow...that's insane !!!!

Hmmm i bought it like 2 weeks ago and honestly i keep losing control signal and ends up coming home again so i doubt this comment is true

Del · Aug 18, 2015

JOHN CUERVO said:
Hmmm i bought it like 2 weeks ago and honestly i keep losing control signal and ends up coming home again so i doubt this comment is true

What's the furthes you got with them before you lost control signal ..Your gonna have to elaborate a little..

JOHN CUERVO · Aug 18, 2015

Del said:
What's the furthes you got with them before you lost control signal ..Your gonna have to elaborate a little..

No more than 438 ft and keeps rth same as video feed looks wavy like wave signals on my tablet idk what im doing wrong :/

Del · Aug 18, 2015

JOHN CUERVO said:
No more than 438 ft and keeps rth same as video feed looks wavy like wave signals on my tablet idk what im doing wrong :/

Did you try testing it out in deferent area's to see if it makes a deference ..?
And for your wave signals.. Mane make sure all your connection on your entanna to the controller are tight.. I would star with that.. Because you should be getting better performance than what you're getting ..