![]() ![]() The TBS Triumph is a premium version of the Foxeer antenna. At less than $10 per antenna, the value here is just amazing.īuy two or three of these and they’ll last a VERY long time. ![]() To compare, I must have gone through at least 3 Fat Shark antennas and 3 AOMWAY antennas. I’ve had some pretty rough crashes with these antennas and they are still holding up well. It gives performance which rivals or is even better than the AOMWAY or Fat Shark antennas, and the antenna is cased in nearly indestructible plastic. My new favorite antenna is the Foxeer circular polarized. So here are the best antennas out there: Foxeer antenna Note: I have since ditched the AOMWAY antennas for TBS and Foxeer antennas, in which the lobes are encased in nearly indestructible plastic. These antennas are very cheap and functional – though their performance may vary every now and then, and the lobes will easily bend out of shape in a collision. There is no protection for the cable or the head. There are cheap eBay/Chinese antennas, in which there’s just a connector, coax cable, and the three lobed or four lobed head. The same goes for left-hand antennas.Ĭircular polarized antennas are the most common(for a good reason) antennas in multi-rotor FPV, and as such they come in many different designs. Right-hand will only receive signal from a transmitter that’s sending out a signal with a right-hand antenna and no other. There are two types of circular polarized antennas – right-hand and left-hand. These antennas are also less susceptible to multi-pathing, so you can fly around walls and trees with better video quality. They are also known as skew-planar or omni-directional antennas, which means they can transmit and receive equally well in all directions, so no matter what the orientation of your multi-rotor is(up/down/left/right), you’ll still get a good signal. Circular polarized antennasĬircular polarized antennas are three-or-four lobed antennas that give much better reception than dipole antennas. Most FPV equipment comes with a rubber ducky antenna out of the box – but you won’t be needing it. These antennas are also very sensitive to multi-pathing, which is when the video signal bounces off of hard objects, so if you fly near a wall(or walls), you’ll lose signal very quick. So if you bank hard to the left or right, or try to do a flip, you’ll lose signal. Rubber ducky antennas have very poor range, especially for multirotors, because they can only transmit if they are upright. ![]() Note: The image is actually a 2.4 gHz antenna – a 5.8 gHz antenna will be smaller.ĭipole antennas, also known as rubber ducky antennas, are very simple – just some coax cable with a bit of metal casing on the end to transmit or receive the signal. This offers the most protection to the somewhat delicate connector, and doesn’t really affect range in any way.īack to antennas, though. You can either leave it straight or bend it up a little. I like to mount my antennas horizontally – the transmitter goes under the top plate(the connector on the transmitter will also be inside the top plate, not sticking out), and only half or 3/4 of the antenna sticks out from behind the copter. This is fine, except that if you land/crash upside down at a weird angle, there is a lot of force and tension at the connector itself and I’ve broken a few antennas/connectors this way. In my earlier builds, I would mount the antenna and video transmitter by pushing the connector of the transmitter through a hole in the top plate of the frame, and then screwing the antenna down on to the connector, so it would be upright. Patch antennas(and best patch antennas for diversity).So here are the best antennas out there:.If you power it up without an antenna, heat will build up in the transmitter and it’ll burn up! When you buy your equipment, make sure to read what kind of connector your FPV transmitter and receiver has – it’ll always be in the product description, and buy antennas that have the proper plugs.Ī word of caution, though, and repeat after me: I WILL NEVER POWER MY FPV TRANSMITTER WITHOUT AN ANTENNA PLUGGED IN! In RPSMA antennas, it’s the other way around. In SMA antennas, the female plug(the one that the other plug screws on to) has a hole, where the extruding wire from the SMA male plug goes in. One isn’t necessarily better than the other, but it’s just a matter of design. It’s also important to know what kind of connector your fpv equipment has, and to match it to the connector on the antenna! There are two types of connectors: SMA and RP-SMA. Using a proper FPV antenna is the deciding factor in whether or not you will have good reception and ultimately a good flying experience!įPV antennas come in a few different types: ![]()
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