DougSimmons
New User
For signal loss redundancy I'm using the RX8R w/ telemetry as my primary/master receiver which is wired up to an X8R w/o telemetry, the slave receiver, primarily to avoid line-of-sight shielding of the relatively big lipo and the esc as I've had a few brief failures and low RSSI dips. It seemed apparent that the RSSI and the distance of the plane had no correlation (strong RSSI at 2K feet, weak when coming in to land much closer), rather I'd get dips when the plane was aimed at me at a particular angle. So I bought the RX8R, put it under the tail of the airplane, and wired it to the X8R up at the front as the slave receiver. So far no failures with the RX8R + X8R that triggered failsafes, but I'm still paranoid about flyaways and just ordered the R9R. (Also using the Castle 2.0 BEC.)
While the R9R seems likely to decisively improve my signal robustness if I used it alone, rather than just using the R9R, for the purpose of getting telemetry and for having a second rx (albeit of much poorer reception) acting as a primary (the RX8R), could I swap in the R9R in place of the X8R to act as the slave receiver of the RX8R, so that if the RX8R loses its signal it will turn to the R9R's signal feed? Or because the R9R uses some sort of different protocol (??) will that not work? The 9th channel, I guess I should bind 1-8 for rx cohesion?
Antenna placement, what's the way to go, to position them such that both of the two antennas are never perpendicular to the transmitter, not the other way around, and the farther spread away from each other the better? How about curving the antennas a bit, or should they be kept straight? Should I avoid using certain types of tape, like duct/Gorilla tape, on the antennas? If the antennas get wet when taxiing, no big deal?
Any recommendations for a GPS-equipped flight controller that knows how to fly a plane in order to turn and aim the thing back toward me with some throttle and perhaps flaps, keeping at a certain altitude in hopes of regaining a signal? And if the transmitter failed rather than just too weak a signal, is there something I could program to, say, get the plane close to its original position (or better yet, a specific position, in the middle of the field, then, cutting the throttle, to put itself into a gentle, slow spiral descent? Yikes, sounds expensive, but I'm paranoid. Tl;dr, looking for an FC that flies airplanes with RTH, throttle control and waypoints, any tips?
Thanks guys, and thank you Wayne and Aloft for your contributions to the hobby in general.
While the R9R seems likely to decisively improve my signal robustness if I used it alone, rather than just using the R9R, for the purpose of getting telemetry and for having a second rx (albeit of much poorer reception) acting as a primary (the RX8R), could I swap in the R9R in place of the X8R to act as the slave receiver of the RX8R, so that if the RX8R loses its signal it will turn to the R9R's signal feed? Or because the R9R uses some sort of different protocol (??) will that not work? The 9th channel, I guess I should bind 1-8 for rx cohesion?
Antenna placement, what's the way to go, to position them such that both of the two antennas are never perpendicular to the transmitter, not the other way around, and the farther spread away from each other the better? How about curving the antennas a bit, or should they be kept straight? Should I avoid using certain types of tape, like duct/Gorilla tape, on the antennas? If the antennas get wet when taxiing, no big deal?
Any recommendations for a GPS-equipped flight controller that knows how to fly a plane in order to turn and aim the thing back toward me with some throttle and perhaps flaps, keeping at a certain altitude in hopes of regaining a signal? And if the transmitter failed rather than just too weak a signal, is there something I could program to, say, get the plane close to its original position (or better yet, a specific position, in the middle of the field, then, cutting the throttle, to put itself into a gentle, slow spiral descent? Yikes, sounds expensive, but I'm paranoid. Tl;dr, looking for an FC that flies airplanes with RTH, throttle control and waypoints, any tips?
Thanks guys, and thank you Wayne and Aloft for your contributions to the hobby in general.
