OMG! Fatshark clovers are good!

[rob.thomson]

Just cone back from an hour flying with my mini sky walker.

I decided to try some fat shark clovers. 

One on the goggle, one on the plane.

I am very impressed.   I took the model out to around 400m with no break up at all! I could have gone further - but was getting too far from the field for comfort.

On all the other antennas I have used, I suffered severe signal degradation round 250 to 300m.

No idea how they do it - but they are worth they money you pay!

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[Coyote]

Which Fatshark clovers are these ? I didn`t know Fatshark were making antennas

[rob.thomson]

Imersion RC :)

Are then not the same company that makes the fat shark stuff?

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[Coyote]

Yes they supply the units to Fatshark, but the antennas are ImmersionRC Spironets in that case

[rob.thomson]

I see!

They are superb.  Very impressed.

Only real question.  Why does no one sell only the to antenna on its own?


Rob

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[Coyote]

That is a good question, the presume at first that you want one on the receiver and one on your transmitter. They then forget that most of us fly more than one craft, and we might need more of them, or we might want to use the Skew-Planar`s on both instead of a cloverleaf on any of them, but that means buying multiple sets and using only half the set

[rob.thomson]

Agreed.  When you consider the price of them - it is a little odd that we have to 'waste' all that money buying multiple receivers.

Tell you what is funny.  I built my antenna tracker because I was dissapointed with the range of my clovers.  (originally cheapo ebay ones)

Had I simply used these - I would probably have delayed the antenna tracker for at least year!   With just my goggles and a 200mw transmitter, I have complete portability - and ability to fly at huge distance :-)

[rob.thomson]

Just been out flying again.

Took the model out to 450m.  Still hand a decent signal, but was definitely dropping.

Not bad considering just the clover talking to my goggles.

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[bignose13]

Think Wayne did 2.5 k on skews he bought of this site(not immersion )

[CurryKitten]

There's a world of difference between cheap antennas bought on ebay, and someone who knows what they are doing.  I bought some sets of ebay thinking if the shape looks right, it'll be good - and they were of course shite.  Breaking up at around 300m, but at the time I thought it was good.

However, having now got several well built skews from members of this very forum (one of them lurking one post up), in my experience these will outperform the immersion clovers quite quickly (and as Coyote mentioned 2 x skews is better than a skew and one clover).  I know this from a few meets when someone flying with the Immersion skews starts complaining his picture is going fuzzy, and these rest of us riding passenger with decent skews still have crystal clear picture.

[rob.thomson]

Let me clarify because this always leaves me confused.

Clovers vs Skews.  What the difference?

[Randall]

Agreed a decent set will give you some good range, I have a set from Flynn and I can get 1km just above the ground on the quad (still LOS) and had 2km on the ES2 with just a set of his. I've also seen very impressive results with the Immersion ones and the fact they are hard cased is a bonus, you will get 1.5km easy on immersion ones with a 600mw tx and further in the right conditions

[rob.thomson]

I look forward to seeing the antennas the guys sell on here getting hard cases.  3d printer should do the trick?

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[Randall]

Tbh it has to degrade the signal, I'm no boffin at radio stuff but a solid in the way must cause a loss of some description. I have yet to bust a naked one so quite happy with my naked ones. 

[rob.thomson]

Let me clarify because this always leaves me confused.

Clovers vs Skews.  What the difference?

Can anyone clarify for me?

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