Hi there,
Did my first FPV flights today using my AXN :D
My FPV setup is 200mw boscam transmitter with big nose skew.
I use sky zone goggles with bignose skew and 5 turn helical.
I was a little disappointed with the reception I was getting. I was basically flying LOS, no more that 200m away from myself and the signal was only good in patches or if I was flying really low to the ground. I didn't feel confident to venture further away as the signal kept breaking up to the point of it not being flyable. I was hoping at the short range id get a fairly solid signal on 5.8ghz
I was flying in the middle of a load of fields and can't believe theres a lot of RF noise around.
Any ideas?
Could be a number of things, like wrong type of SMA used ( even though Skyzones are Boscam style they use Immersion SMA`s not RP-SMA`s like a Boscam receiver does )
More than likely is your on the wrong channel and are seeing a ghost channel believing your on the right one when your not.
A picture of your setup will help a lot though. Just saying I cant get any range whats wrong is a bit vague, there are so many possibilities / factors that details go a long way.
Thanks Coyote,
I went out again this morning and changed to channel 3 (was on channel 1 yesterday) to see if that changed anything.
Signal was still really bad unless under 30m ! The signal on the ground when starting up is solid.
I checked all the connectors and they all are the correct type.
Had a scary moment when I thought it might get better the further out I went - oh dear... got about 250m out and it completely went. Nothing at all.
I took the goggles off and could just about hear the AXN and floored the power and then spotted it doing some weird mating dance oscillations over a wood in the distance.
Relieved to get it back in one piece. I've attached a picture of the setup.
I wonder if I might have a dodgy transmitter?
is the TX antenna connected? i've read on here that some adapters and connectors are duff.
Hi George
Can you post a pic of the connectors on your skyzone and a pic of the connectors on the antennas and also did you have two skews and a helix or just 1 skew and a helix, I cant remember,
Cheers and we'll get this sorted
Simon
You say you set it to channel 3
What VTX are you using?
Are you sure your skyzones are on the correct band for the brand of vtx?
That`s what I think Rob, wrong band picking up a ghost channel instead of the correct one
Yup. Its very easy to get wrong!