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Edit: Moved per your request, thanks for noticing your mispost.
A topic that I have not seen discussed (or found with search) on this forum is the maximum range distance of the H Plus.
I know the specs state 1 mile which exceeds VSOL unless you are an eagle or hawk so I hadn't worried too much about this topic, until today.
Today I did an unintentional distance test with my H+ (thought I would have no issues reaching my location of interest) and was surprised to loose the 2.4 GHz control WiFi connection at 1,200 feet (yes, there was a single row of trees that the WiFi had to penetrate). Tried the test twice, lost the signal twice at roughly the same distance. Good news - Return To Launch Works when WiFi control is lost!
There were two aspects to my surprise:
A topic that I have not seen discussed (or found with search) on this forum is the maximum range distance of the H Plus.
I know the specs state 1 mile which exceeds VSOL unless you are an eagle or hawk so I hadn't worried too much about this topic, until today.
Today I did an unintentional distance test with my H+ (thought I would have no issues reaching my location of interest) and was surprised to loose the 2.4 GHz control WiFi connection at 1,200 feet (yes, there was a single row of trees that the WiFi had to penetrate). Tried the test twice, lost the signal twice at roughly the same distance. Good news - Return To Launch Works when WiFi control is lost!
There were two aspects to my surprise:
- 1,200 feet is a long way from 5,280 feet. While I didn't expect to fly to 1 mile, losing connection at 20% of maximum range doesn't reflect a very robust control system. Also, part of my surprise was the characteristics of how I lost connection. There was no warning, just suddenly the video locked and then a warning on the display that WiFi was lost. What seemed like an eternity elapsed before a 'WiFi connection established' was displayed along with the RTL activated message.
- I was monitoring the WiFi signal strength icons and was down to 1 bar for the video signal WiFi (using the patch antenna) but the 2.4 GHz was still all bars showing. Thanks to the video recorder for the ST monitor, I can review how the WiFi indicators performed just before signal loss. I claim the 2.4 GHz indicator is NOT dynamic but just an icon. It went from full signal to loss of signal in 1 second... (on both tests).
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