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Exploring Range Pt.1 5.8Ghz
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<blockquote data-quote="Northwood Mediaworks" data-source="post: 60348" data-attributes="member: 6411"><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite12" alt="o_O" title="Er... what? o_O" loading="lazy" data-shortname="o_O" />So, another farm video... Flight 33 this time (do I hear a collective groan? ) if you've seen enough of these already... feel free to change the channel <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />, but then everyone slows down to look at a car wreck!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>So, I am getting braver each time I fly... and thanks to having mostly wilderness around us, I can start pushing the envelope more. This weekend I got out for an early morning flight, thinking about range... and before the rains came on Saturday, and then sadly the rest of the day I was grounded. Again today I got out there mid-day, nearly no wind, really hot... and thought again about exploring range... </p><p></p><p>I've never done anything other than 5.8, so I decided to push 5.8 more than I had before, crossed over to my neighbor's airspace (200 acres - with their permission, they are absentee owners) and flew as far as I dared until something happened.... with my house and a stand of trees in-between. Sure enough, about 500m from where I was standing, I suddenly had a disconnected video feed, the aircraft was still under my control... and the video feed returned just seconds later. I brought it back to the airspace over our place. That was the very first video disconnect I have seen...</p><p></p><p>Now we have a large-ish property, about 108 acres. (43 hectares), and mostly wooded, its like a jungle, thick boreal or taiga forest. I've been back on land to the south west corner, on foot, and summarily on ATV (quads). But we dont have groomed trails back that far (yet). So in this video, I got close enough over that corner to see the "beaver valley" which at one time was a really large pond, a grassy meadow now. The dam was breached a few years back (I suspect my neighbour broke it as the pond was starting to flood his land to the south of us.) The signal on 5.8 got down below 50% but no disconnects... I had some good altitude, and no trees between me and the AC. Here's the resulting video, with some canned music this time... Part 2 will be the 2.4 range test... total distance on that flight, 2.5km, my longest ever. Yay!</p><p></p><p>If you've read this far, you must be a Spark geek... hope you enjoy. Part2 is coming soon.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /> Why you might ask? I know some people cannot get enough Spark video. The only cure is something up from it! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Also a frame grab of beaver valley. Its a long video... this aint cinema...[ATTACH=full]6371[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]xY_Rw-WEaH8[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northwood Mediaworks, post: 60348, member: 6411"] o_OSo, another farm video... Flight 33 this time (do I hear a collective groan? ) if you've seen enough of these already... feel free to change the channel :p, but then everyone slows down to look at a car wreck!:rolleyes:;) So, I am getting braver each time I fly... and thanks to having mostly wilderness around us, I can start pushing the envelope more. This weekend I got out for an early morning flight, thinking about range... and before the rains came on Saturday, and then sadly the rest of the day I was grounded. Again today I got out there mid-day, nearly no wind, really hot... and thought again about exploring range... I've never done anything other than 5.8, so I decided to push 5.8 more than I had before, crossed over to my neighbor's airspace (200 acres - with their permission, they are absentee owners) and flew as far as I dared until something happened.... with my house and a stand of trees in-between. Sure enough, about 500m from where I was standing, I suddenly had a disconnected video feed, the aircraft was still under my control... and the video feed returned just seconds later. I brought it back to the airspace over our place. That was the very first video disconnect I have seen... Now we have a large-ish property, about 108 acres. (43 hectares), and mostly wooded, its like a jungle, thick boreal or taiga forest. I've been back on land to the south west corner, on foot, and summarily on ATV (quads). But we dont have groomed trails back that far (yet). So in this video, I got close enough over that corner to see the "beaver valley" which at one time was a really large pond, a grassy meadow now. The dam was breached a few years back (I suspect my neighbour broke it as the pond was starting to flood his land to the south of us.) The signal on 5.8 got down below 50% but no disconnects... I had some good altitude, and no trees between me and the AC. Here's the resulting video, with some canned music this time... Part 2 will be the 2.4 range test... total distance on that flight, 2.5km, my longest ever. Yay! If you've read this far, you must be a Spark geek... hope you enjoy. Part2 is coming soon.:cool: Why you might ask? I know some people cannot get enough Spark video. The only cure is something up from it! :confused:;) Also a frame grab of beaver valley. Its a long video... this aint cinema...[ATTACH=full]6371[/ATTACH] [MEDIA=youtube]xY_Rw-WEaH8[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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