03-07-2015, 08:06 AM
You can see it suffers from a little bit of break up behind the trees but this is pretty good for 5.8 gHz
there's also a bit of break up on the edges of the antenna's beam, It's quite directional with a claimed gain of 14db. But straight down the line it's excellent !! You just have to remember to fly with in the beam. Some of this video was flown using the diversity box but all of it was recorded using the just a single receiver and the patch antenna. I had it sitting on the roof of the car recording for the flights when I used the diversity box to actually fly. It has better penetration through the trees than my helicals which is not that surprising as they are only around 12 db. The patch has nearly twice the power and for $18 it's a bargain !!
http://youtu.be/jiuTTJn3oHI
there's also a bit of break up on the edges of the antenna's beam, It's quite directional with a claimed gain of 14db. But straight down the line it's excellent !! You just have to remember to fly with in the beam. Some of this video was flown using the diversity box but all of it was recorded using the just a single receiver and the patch antenna. I had it sitting on the roof of the car recording for the flights when I used the diversity box to actually fly. It has better penetration through the trees than my helicals which is not that surprising as they are only around 12 db. The patch has nearly twice the power and for $18 it's a bargain !!
http://youtu.be/jiuTTJn3oHI
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