Modifying oem antennas & locations , Good or bad or stupid ?

Pedals2Paddles · Mar 16, 2017

When I say one of each on each end, I didn't mean linear and CP. I mean the solo should have one RHCP and one LHCP. And the controller should have the same... One LHCP and one RHCP.

David Boulanger · Mar 16, 2017

Pedals2Paddles said:
When I say one of each on each end, I didn't mean linear and CP. I mean the solo should have one RHCP and one LHCP. And the controller should have the same... One LHCP and one RHCP.

Gotcha. I need to read up more on exactly how this MIMO works

andrew.baker.142 · Mar 16, 2017

Here is the photo of the Crosshair and the Cloverleafs with an empty Solo shell for scale. I have two Crosshairs, just have not unboxed the second one. I'll post more photos when I get her reassembled.

Pedals2Paddles · Mar 16, 2017

I can think of no better way to say this. But I didn't realize how big 5" was. lol. That thing is yuuuge! Two of them on the controller might a bit cumbersome. But will probably work amazing.

andrew.baker.142 · Mar 16, 2017

Well I finally got my girl back together. No surprises. I don't think she will win any beauty contests, but I've always been more of a function over form kinda guy anyway.
Should work great though!

andrew.baker.142 · Mar 16, 2017

Pedals2Paddles said:
I can think of no better way to say this. But I didn't realize how big 5" was. lol. That thing is yuuuge! Two of them on the controller might a bit cumbersome. But will probably work amazing.

Yes, two Crosshairs will be cumbersome on the controller. Will be great on the antenna tracker though!

Pedals2Paddles · Mar 16, 2017

An antenna tracker is what I saw them on and why I thought they seemed maybe a little too big. But they're definitely an awesome antenna. And they look bad ass! Nice job with the Solo antenna install! Seeing that i need to completely rebuild my experimental solo from a pile of parts after today's little "incident", I think I'm going to do this now too. What was your source for the antennas and the pigtails? I'm ordering them tonight!

andrew.baker.142 · Mar 16, 2017

I bought everything from readymaderc.com . Great company located in Ohio.
Make sure you use the code SHIPPINGDEAL to save most/all of the shipping costs.
The antennas are under "FPV Components"

Pedals2Paddles · Mar 16, 2017

Cool. That's where I bought a lot of the FPV gear on my big ass Y6

andrew.baker.142 · Mar 18, 2017

Quick test flight today was very successful. I even left the stock antennas on the controller and flew out a few hundred feet just fine.

andrew.baker.142 · Mar 18, 2017

Pedals2Paddles said:
Cool. That's where I bought a lot of the FPV gear on my big ass Y6

I realized that I got the ufl to SMA 15cm long pigtails from Amazon, not readymaderc. Sorry about that.

Mkennemer · Jun 17, 2017

andrew.baker.142 said:
I got a pair of these last week. Hope to install them this weekend.
VAS - 2.4 GHz Cloverleaf Whip Antenna RHCP - Right Angle [CL-2400-90] - $19.95 : Ready Made RC LLC, The Leader in All Things FPV, RC, and Beyond

I put alfas on with 4w boosters and also using microtics and getting 18,000 ft ,at 17,700 I still have 3 bars.
I am doing all this over my own personal land ,(no) threat to people or anything but my wallet

Mkennemer · Jun 17, 2017

Pedals2Paddles said:
I can think of no better way to say this. But I didn't realize how big 5" was. lol. That thing is yuuuge! Two of them on the controller might a bit cumbersome. But will probably work amazing.

JUST FOR DISTANCE AND PUSHING THROUGH TREES

why not boosting with paddles yes battery is big on controller and boosters. I have three solos and one is for distance.
I am using microtics and alphas 4wboosters at 3/s battery mounted on controller fairly large but the range is unbeatable.
I can fly 360deg all around at just under half a mile and 4 to 7 miles in straight frontal path, the only thing stopping me is battery.
I cant go past 18,000 and safely make it back in time .the other solos I have helical spherical for medium to long range videos pics etc.

David Boulanger · Jun 17, 2017

That's how you do it. FCC won't be very happy but will never find out. 4 Watts EIRP is the max I believe.

Mkennemer · Jun 17, 2017

Mkennemer said:
JUST FOR DISTANCE AND PUSHING THROUGH TREES

why not boosting with paddles yes battery is big on controller and boosters. I have three solos and one is for distance.
I am using microtics and alphas 4wboosters at 3/s battery mounted on controller fairly large but the range is unbeatable.
I can fly 360deg all around at just under half a mile and 4 to 7 miles in straight frontal path, the only thing stopping me is battery.
I cant go past 18,000 and safely make it back in time .the other solos I have helical spherical for medium to long range videos pics etc.

Mkennemer · Jun 17, 2017

David Boulanger said:
That's how you do it. FCC won't be very happy but will never find out. 4 Watts EIRP is the max I believe.

yes but I have a long land track and ten miles from airport. the pic I showed is a get it running post in the works job.
I im putting together a light bridge packet or token system .I use this at work for secure wifi transmission ill post when im done