Like it! Skillfully built, flown, photographed, and explained. Cool design features. Four motor, very cool also.

Do it! Whoever does that first in RC and makes a video will be my hero.

I wish they would make receivers that have 5.8ghz repeaters already installed!

Thanks for your videos! Very articulate & helpful !

I did this when Fat Shark first came out with the 5.8gHz goggles. I bought 2 sets of 5.8gHz goggles to use on planes and they were so limited with the stock antennas. (this was before the clover leaf revolution) The freedom of not being "cabled" to the ground station has been great. Later, Gundy

nice setup, I also been using 5.8g 10mw as wireless repeater for my 1.2ghz for almost a year really give you freedom with no cable

I actually use a similar setup, only with a 100mw 5.8 fatshark VTX as my relay. I do recommend affixing a proper finned heatsink to even the 25mw vtx. The Immersion units can get very hot. Personally, when I want to sit in air conditioned comfort I just put my groundstation tripod on my Jeep roof. Having it up high not only gives better signal LOS, it also protects against curious and clumsy feet knocking over my GS.

Perfect weather you have there :)

Glad I found your video. I want to try this when I buy some Skyzone FPV goggles that is 5.8 only. My QAV400 has 1.3ghz Lawmate tx on it. Thanks.

did it add latency using wireless from the ground station to your goggles

Case as the base and the poles fit together and stick into it. Poles fit in the case when packed up.

Great vid as usual and i dont even fly fpv or quadcopters (YET) lol

AWESOME! Do you have any build videos or schematics?

Really usefull thanks :)

Yea you tha man Ed, I always new you had other things up your sleeve as well.. I'm doing some of that my self do you like the 1.2 &1.3 over the 900mhz?

yes, I even embedded the small 5.8ghz modules Inside the 1.2ghz RX case no cable visible :)

ED, great vids,i have a question about the repeater,how does this setup pick up the different channel and send it to the goggles?is it just a receiver on the same channel as the goggles?how does it get the video signal?I must be missing something

I have thinking of how to use a repeater on one plane to extend the range of flight on another plane. The plane with the repeater, which I have nicknamed the Echo Bird, would fly out and go into loiter, just circling over a point. Then a second plane, or even a quad could fly to that point and descend to low altitude to I check out the area near the ground. The Echo Bird would be relaying the video and possibly the control link between the ground station and the quad, a RC AWACS plane.

Very nice, Ed. One question, how're the shipping charges to the US from Horizon FPV? Do their prices with the discount (very nice of you to work this out with them, BTW) remain competitive with the dealers here? See you at the field!

Air conditioning ahhhhh nice. Did you make yje inverted V 1.3? any specs on V wire lengths? just ordered the 700mw 1.2-1.3 unit.

I said the same thing a week earlier and no one payed any attention. I guess we are both on a different level from the norm. :-)

Nice, I just made a mast like that with a tent pole too. Though it was too flexible and bends to the ground with the weight of my diversity rx. I now have some old telescopic walking poles to use instead. I love the repeater solution. Do you lose any video quality? All we need now is a modded version of OpenLRSng to repeat the control signal. Airborne repeater anyone?

Oh I saw your idea, it would be amazing. Some days I can't respond to every comment. Don't ever take it personally. You can always send a PM.

In your video, your GS battery is in the case with lead wires spliced in between the repeater and VTX. With this spliced in, does this affect the battery performance any ? This keeps the weight off the top, where could be a problem.

Nice job, looks good. Harbor Freight box? I have the same box.

nice Wales shirt :-)

(I know it would be over complicated and require a second pilot but, ) I wonder what kind of range increase you could get if you had a parkzone-radian converted to a sort of awacs role flying high altitude circles and repeating signals between the ground and the fpv aircraft.

Hi Ed, can you be more specific on the wiring you did from the RC jack on the 1.3 RX to the FatShark 5.8TX for your repeater? Thanks, great vid.

@hbenn420

10 жыл бұрын

Consider how your camera would connect from the yellow wire to a video transmitters yellow wire on an aircraft to be received by the GS. The 1.3 receiver on the GS becomes the camera with the yellow wire that connects to the repeaters yellow wire to transmit to your goggles..

I know this is a old video but I building a similar 1.3ghz to 5.8ghz repeater my concern is will i loose my osd information on the mointor? I'm thinking that information is sent by 5.8ghz vtx but I'll be replacing that with a 1.3ghz vtx. Thanks for video

I was thinking a bixler with ardupilot on loiter. But that is perfect for still days. Cheap easy to launch. Windy days you could use a kite.

How do you like the dragon link with the 1.3ghz?

To each his own. A repeater arrangement by definition requires two frequencies. As the main video link I used a long wavelength that suits my needs. As the local link to the goggles I used the frequency for the video goggles. There is no unnecessary complexity or components. I also use one main battery for the ground station and one for the wireless goggles. Cabling is extremely simple. Congratulations on your ground station which meets your needs. The link you give leads nowhere.

Hi, I know your video dates from a while back, but I like your "repeater" idea. Do you just connect a video cable from the video out of the 1,3 video RX to the immersion 5,8 TX ? Thanks.

@paulkazjack

7 жыл бұрын

yes he does.

nice thx

ok,think i got it... video from fpv goes into the goggles tx then gets sent to the goggles..yes?

Can't get that link above to work.

"line of sight" would certainly mean something different and you could have "look down" capability to go around obstacles on the ground.

A little bit of video quality loss, maybe 10% subjectively. Hard to quantify that. But it's worth it for the advantages for me preferences. Airborne repeater would be extremely awesome to be sure!!

A helium balloon the transmitter in a padded OtterBox case tethered to the ground with a small which this would take care of line of sight issues.

Problem is not quality degradation, but the double delay in video signal

There is no delay.

A nimrod?

Are you using a low pass filter?

@ExperimentalAirlines

9 жыл бұрын

Richard Sultmanis I used a high pass filter on the VRx for a time, while using 433MHz for control, but it didn't seem to make much difference so I don't use it regularly. But they do have their place.

Why not just use a tripod? Yeah, they are a bit bulkier, but you get a so much more stable platform, and you can put more on it, even a tracker if you want to. I can't see doing that with a tentpole.

Squishy, use a big enough battery and it won't matter how much power you use, you won't use it up. Keep in mind that receivers don't use that much juice and the little 25mw vtx doesn't use much either. Now, if you are running a really long line to a DVR ro recording laptop, then yeah, you're gonna chew through battery. But otherwise even a 2200mah battery will last for several hours. Probably longer than you are going to fly in a session.

Awww cool video as always but every person I see who starts into the copter realm never goes back to planes! :(

It seems every time I see an rc plane guy use a multi copter they never go back to planes! :( You better stick with the wings too!

Way more complex than it needs to be and you have things you just don't need. Why use two frequencies? I have no need for freedom at my ground station, but I do have a need for many things you missed. Like a single large battery solution, easy cabling and separation, a power indicator is also very useful to see how much is left in your GS battery.. my gs here: rcpowers.com/community/threads/fpv.14187/page-7#post-175965

you fail to mention if the repeater helps with range. nice un-interrupted monologue tho.

There is a drawback here: Im a stickler for image quality and when repeating the signal I noticed quite a bit more noise in the image.