Homemade 34-Turn Helical Antenna for Long Range FPV Review & Range Test - Helical vs Patch [1440p60] Giant Ant Cowboy's Helical Antenna Instruction: • Easy DIY 5.8ghz Helica... - I hope you enjoyed this video! - AeroStuff FPV
Great video, very well presented, and thanks for the shout out. Super happy to see people’s experience with my DIY helical build. Incredible for a cheap easy thing. Definitely get your DVR fixed, and maybe think about it HDZero system this year once the new high lower VTX is out. Though actually, for a long range plane you might have great success with the SIYI digital system. I’ve never used it, but reviews seem very positive. Keep up the good work, cheers!
Thank you very much! I've recently flew Long Range and had +7km with a SOLID signal! (Almost perfect, but very sharp & colorful) @800mW with the same plane (but a different receiver). And another Personal Thank You for messaging me on FB about the antenna. You were the only one optimistic about it, knowing more about these antennas than others!
@@AeroStuffFPV - I remember when I first started experimenting with antennas and most of the FPV community said that I was foolish to make my own. They told me that dipoles and patch antennas were better than anything I could make. Looks like they're eating their words now. Most people think DIY is foolish and ridiculous. However, that is a hobby in itself for us tinkerers. Some of our creations will work and others will not. In any case, I'd like to send you a kit of sorts for my new Avenger antenna. No cost to you of course. I just want you to build it. It is a Crosshair Xtreme with a parasitic waveguide in front of it which increases the gain to 12.5dbic. I haven't even released it yet so you will be the first to have it... and you can tell everyone you built your own ;)
Thank you for the well explained video. I also have the ev800d goggles but with the stock antenna’s I’m getting low range with a 1000mw AKK vtx barely making it 300 meters. Are you running a 5.8ghz amplifier and diy antennas to get this range?
I have a laser cutter, I am wondering if I could mock up one of these for you out of acrylic. Also wondering if a yagi antenna is better or worst than helical, as I saw a few ultra long range folks flying those.
It would help if you looked into setting up a retransmitter. Then you could have the big helical on a tripod or other mount and retransmit on another frequency to your goggles. That gets you a good range but requires neither a heavy head-mount antenna nor care in facing the right direction.
We are glad that you were safe and that the plane was recovered completely. What are the Flight controls and firmware programs used for? I hope you always enjoy enjoyable and safe flights. May good luck always be with you.
@@AeroStuffFPV EaseUS. There's 2 free versions, one called the trial version and one called the free version, if you get the trial version you can't restore anything but if you get the free version you can restore 500mb of the files it can find.
The biggest problem with having that many turns is obviously the gain Factor will be quite high, which means serious tight directivity! You better be ready to keep that thing perfectly on track because no matter how tight you try just being off by a couple of inches will lose your video substantially. It's almost not worth having something that high game unless you're tracking is perfect you're better off with the lower gain antenna maybe stacking them which of course will add to directivity to some degree
Did You use a 50ohm terminator on your tripple feed patch antenna? With 600mw of power on vtx and this 14dbi antenna the range should be over 20km easy.
Awesome video dude, and lucky at the end. Have you thought about using a camera tripod to hold the helical antennas at the plane? I believe with so many turns, the beamwidth may only be a couple of degrees which might explain why it was a bit inconsistent.
Thanks! Yes, I thought about having a TriPod with an antenna tracker. But I have it permanently mounted on my Goggles... I don’t see the need of a tracker either because I move my head like one ever so precisely to get the best picture :)
Bro u definitely need to invest in a 3D printer. Best $250 ever Anything you want, you can just print it. I was able to print out some wings out of LWPLA which is basically the same as regular foam but slightly stiffer. It can be annoying to use F360 to model the parts, but overall its still worth it. It really does change the whole FPV experience when you can just model in your own gimbal, or even your own bomb bay.
@@AeroStuffFPV I think it's too time consuming and finicky to configure. I like the fact you use simpler and cheaper materials and get good results. I'd suggest you to try some hotwired wing and fuselage so you can compare the performance.
We fly 7 km on a 3 turn Helix and 25 mW of video power! :) Correction: our antennas are correctly and carefully tuned! So you should learn a little antenna theory and buy a good tuning device. Or buy our antennas from Russia :)))
