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Lee
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A beautiful evenings flying

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Just got back from a sweet sesh on the beach.
Flew the Warp360. Trying to get my thumbs working again after basically a 6 month break :)
Flew the Glider.
Flew the mini quad.
Did a range test on the mini quad to see when i lost video signal.
Surprise was, while the video was still perfect about 400m out, I lost radio signal :(
It was a cheapy ORX with a dodgy antenna. As i was only a couple of feet of the ground, the motors cut and it landed perfectly.
A guy walking his dog picked it up and met me half way back :)
Great fun :)
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Re: A beautiful evenings flying

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Good stuff Lee, nice to hear your getting the webs off that warp... How's the Gobby doing?
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Fun fun fun! Soo.. 400 meters is... Bout a quarter mile... Bout the same distance I lost signal with a Spektrum sat... Wasn't anyone walking to meet me with mine... I think mine must be in a tree... One of the reasons I want GPS & a buzzer on my next quad.
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400m isn't that far really. Do you think the dodgy antenna has reduced the range?
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cml001 wrote:Fun fun fun! Soo.. 400 meters is... Bout a quarter mile... Bout the same distance I lost signal with a Spektrum sat... Wasn't anyone walking to meet me with mine... I think mine must be in a tree... One of the reasons I want GPS & a buzzer on my next quad.
I have a beeper on all of my quads.
I always try and be aware of where I am when flying FPV as I would hate to lose my mini.
When I have had trouble finding it in the past the Taranis telemetry has helped me get close and the beeper gets me there.
I can't afford to build another at the moment.
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