i get that video and control are totally separate systems but is it normal for the gap to be that big? i kind of expected them to degrade roughly together. my video transmitter is set to 1000mw which i thought would be plenty. antennas on the walksnail side are the stock ones that came with the kit, wondering if thats my weak point. i didnt do anything fancy with antenna placement either, just kind of zip tied them to the back of the frame which maybe wasnt the smartest.

not really trying to fly fpv at 800m regularly but id like to understand why theres such a big gap between the two links degrading

my RC-N1 controller shows full bars right up until it drops, then boom, comes back. doesnt seem like a range issue per se because it happens at the same distance regardless of direction. i fly at a park near my house and there's a cell tower maybe half a km away ? i never thought much about it before but now im wondering if thats the culprit. tried switching to 2.4ghz manually instead of letting it auto-select and the drops seem slightly less frequent? hard to tell though.

anyone dealt with this kind of thing, like consistent disconnect at a predictable distance? is it worth trying a different flying location to rule out the tower or is there something i should be checking on the drone itself?

i know 5.8ghz has range limitations compared to 2.4 but my buddy runs almost identical gear and gets way more range out of it. makes me think its either my vtx mounting or antenna placement on the quad. the antenna exits right under the battery which i know isnt ideal but i didnt have a lot of options with this build.

thinking about trying a patch or helical on the goggle side to get more directional gain but id have to track pretty precisely. anyone gone down this rabbit hole with analog setups, is it worth it or should i just look at the quad side first.

the weird thing is it seems worse at a specific park near my house but i flew it at the coast last weekend and had zero issues. i checked the rc-n1 signal strength and it looks fine right before it drops, no warning or anything. just goes dark on the screen then reconnects. im on the latest firmware.

anyone dealt with this before? not sure if its interference from something local or maybe a hardware thing. i really dont want to send it in if i dont have to.

the conventional wisdom ive heard is that 2.4ghz travels farther and penetrates better but its more congested, and 5.8 is less crowded but shorter range and worse through obstacles. but like, in practice does that actually hold up? because i was flying last weekend and had some pretty bad signal stuttering and i was only maybe 800 feet out with clear line of sight. switched to auto and it seemed to help but i want to understand what its actually doing when it picks the frequency. does it just constantly scan and hop or does it lock in at the start of the flight?

genuinely curious what people are seeing in the real world, not just the spec sheet answer.

ive tried re-pairing the remote, checked for firmware updates (its current), even swapped to a different phone. still happens. the weird thing is sometimes it flies for 20 minutes no problem and other times it disconnects after 2 minutes. completely inconsistent. anyone dealt with this kind of thing? starting to wonder if the controller itself is going bad or if there's something environmental im not seeing.

the thing is i dont totally trust the DJI spec sheets on this because of course theyre going to say their new thing is better. what i want to know is if anyone has done like a real side by side or at least flown both systems extensively in similar conditions. ive read that O3 has better frequency hopping but i genuinely dont know how much that matters in practice versus the OcuSync 2 i already have.

also curious if the gain on the Air 3 antennas is actually meaningfully different. my phantom holds up pretty well right now so maybe im solving a problem i dont have, but ive had a few sketchy moments near apartment complexes where the signal got pretty gnarly

im on the RC-N1 controller and i checked the antennas, theyre oriented correctly. signal bars look fine right up until the drop happens then it just tanks for a second and comes back. happened 3 times in one flight yesterday and i was maybe 150 feet up and not even that far out. starting to wonder if something changed in my area or if theres something wrong with the unit itself.

has anyone else had this happen out of nowhere like this? the drone itself seems totally fine mechanically, no crashes or anything. just this weird intermittent connection garbage that started for no obvious reason.

i know they emit EMF and can theoretically mess with the RC link but ive seen really varied opinions on how much this actually matters in practice. some people say theyve flown near them for years with zero issues, others swear they caused a flyaway. i fly a mini 4 pro mostly, so occuSync on 2.4/5.8.

is there any actual data on this or is it mostly anecdote? and does the type of line matter, like a big transmission line vs a regular neighborhood distribution line probably arent the same right

ive already tried switching from 2.4 to 5.8ghz and it didn't really seem to make a difference, maybe slightly worse on 5.8 actually. the area im flying in isnt super urban but there's a cell tower maybe half a kilometer away which i thought might be part of it. updated firmware last week thinking that might help. it didnt.

anyone dealt with this kind of intermittent stuff before? im wondering if its the RC itself or something on the drone side. the signal bar just drops suddenly rather than gradually fading which feels like its not a range thing, more like a hardware or interference thing but idk

running an Autel Evo Lite+ and it does the automatic frequency hopping thing but i still get occasional micro-stutters in the video feed when im flying over neighborhoods. not full disconnects but enough to be annoying especially if im doing any kind of slow cinematic stuff where a single frame glitch ruins the clip.

curious what people are actually seeing in practice in, not just the theoretical stuff. is 5.8 actually cleaner in a dense residential area now that the wifi 6 stuff has kind of pushed more devices up into those bands too, or is it still the better bet over 2.4 congestion. feel like theres no clean answer here but maybe someone has done actual testing.

the weird part is it doesnt seem to matter how far out i am. it happens at 200ft just as much as it does at 800ft. ive tried switching between 2.4 and 5.8 on the RC2 controller manually but neither seems to make a consistent difference. checked for interference sources nearby, theres a cell tower maybe half a mile away but ive flown in way worse RF environments without issues.

latest firmware on everything. signal bars look fine right up until the disconnect happens. no obvious pattern i can identify. anyone dealt with something like this or have any idea where to start?

ive read stuff ranging from total compass freakouts at 50 meters to people saying they flew right under similar lines with no issues at all. running a Autel Evo II Pro, so no ocusync or anything proprietary, just standard 2.4/5.8ghz rc link. curious if anyone has actual experience with this specific scenario and not just general stay away advice

at first i thought it was interference from the area i fly at (theres a cell tower maybe half a mile away) but ive had the same thing happen at two completely different spots now so im starting to think its the controller or maybe the aircraft itself. the signal bars usually look fine when it happens which is what confuses me the most. RC Pro controller by the way, running the latest firmware.

anyone dealt with this? does it show up in the flight logs as a warning or anything i can check after the fact

the areas i fly have a decent amount of farms with equipment running, some industrial stuff maybe a km away, and the occasional power line corridor which i know is a nightmare for signal. lat time i flew the Walksnail build out past about 1.5km near a substation i got some pretty gnarly breakup on the feed even though RSSI looked ok on the goggles. that part confuses me, like how can signal strength look fine but the video still falls apart.

anyone have real world comparisons between the two in environments like that? not looking for spec sheet stuff i can read that myself

setup is stock, using the RC-N1 controller, havent modded anything. i did update to the latest firmware maybe around the time this started but honestly i cant tell if thats when it began or if i just started noticing it more. flying mostly in a semi-rural area, some houses around but not a dense neighborhood or anything.

the disconnect pattern doesnt seem tied to orientation or distance which is what throws me off. like sometimes ill be flying directly toward myself and it happens, other times ill be 200m out and totally fine. checked the antennas on the controller, they look seated fine. anyone dealt with this kind of thing?

ive been defaulting to 2.4 because i always assumed 5.8 drops off too fast and the penetration isnt as good, but a guy at my local club swears by 5.8 in urban environments because theres just less congestion on it for RC use specifically. his argument is that yeah wifi uses 5ghz too but most of it is on channels that dont overlap with what the RC systems actually use.

i dunno. i fly a DJI O3 system mostly so im kind of at the mercy of whatever the auto mode decides anyway. does anyone actually manually lock their frequency and see a measurable difference or is this mostly theoretical at this point with modern systems

ive tried switching between 2.4 and 5.8ghz manually, restarted everything, even did a full controller firmware update last weekend. the weird part is my buddy flies his mini 4 pro in basically the same spots and he never has this issue. at first i thought maybe trees or something but it happens in open areas too so now im stumped.

anyone dealt with this before? im wondering if its the RC2 controller or maybe something with the aircraft antennas. the drone itself is about 8 months old and nothing has been crashed or damaged that i know of.

switched to a mavic 3 classic about 8 months ago with O3 and honestly the first month i thought i'd made a mistake. was getting these weird micro-dropouts, like the video would artifact and then clear up, happened maybe every couple minutes. not dangerous really but annoying and made me nervous. what i eventually figured out after a lot of testing is that O3 seems to recover faster when it does drop but it drops more often in heavy interference. Lightbridge felt more like it would degrade gracefully ? you'd see the quality go down before anything bad happened. O3 is more binary almost, fine fine fine then blip then fine again.

after the firmware updates over the past few months its gotten better, like noticeably. but i still think in genuinely nasty RF environments the older Lightbridge implementation had something going for it that people kind of dismiss now because O3 has better range in clean conditions. anyway just my two cents from actual flying not spec sheets.

ive tried switching from 2.4ghz to 5.8ghz and back, doesnt seem to make a difference. flying in a semi-rural area, not super dense with wifi but there's a neighborhood maybe half a km away. checked the antenna orientation on the controller, they're vertical when the drone is at that distance so shouldnt be an issue. updated firmware last week thinking that might fix it but same thing.

anyone dealt with something like this? wondering if its a hardware issue with the controller or if theres something environmental im missing.

curious what peoples actual experience is with this. ive read everything from its totally fine stay 30 feet away to it will fry your electronics. seems like a lot of it is anecdotal. im using an autel evo 2 pro if that matters, ocusync equivalent is their skylink system. planning to stay at least 50 feet lateral distance from the lines and not fly directly over them.

the compass interference is what im more worried about than the signal honestly ? had a compass error freak out near a metal building once and that was not fun

already tried the obvious stuff ? switched from auto to manual channel selection on the RC, tried both 2.4 and 5.8ghz, checked for obvious interference sources. i fly at a field outside town, not exactly downtown manhattan. the weird part is it doesnt happen every flight, maybe every third or fourth one. and when it does happen it usually recovers after like 10-15 seconds but by then RTH has kicked in and im just watching it fly home annoyed.

running latest firmware, RC2 controller, nothing weird installed. anyone seen this kind of intermittent thing before? im starting to wonder if its the controller itself because ive seen a couple posts about RC2 antenna issues

the common wisdom ive always heard is that 5.8 is less crowded in residential areas since most routers defaulted to 2.4 for years. but now everyone and their grandmother has a wifi 6 router blasting 5ghz channels so i genuinely dont know if that advice is still valid. my TX16S with my freestyle quad on Crossfire is a totally different story but im talking about the DJI ecosystem stuff specifically, the O3 system on my avata 2.

whats peoples actual real world experience been in suburbs? i get occasional video stutters and wondering if band selection is part of it or if im just chasing ghosts here

ive tried recharging both the RC2 and the drone, updated firmware, moved to a different flying spot thinking maybe it was interference but same thing happened at my local park too. signal bars look fine right up until the dropout. never had this on my previous mini 2 at the same spots.

anyone seen this before? not sure if its a hardware fault or something with the o3 transmission or just interference i havent figured out yet

had a situation two weeks ago flying near a manufacturing plant, mavic 3 with O3, and i was getting interference dropouts that felt worse than what my old phantom 4 pro with occusync used to do in similar spots. granted different drones different situations but it got me thinking. the O3 is wider bandwidth which should theoretically help with frequency hopping but im not sure if the implementation is actually better at dealing with narrowband interference sources like industrial equipment.

anyone with actual technical background or real world comparisons between the two done any proper testing? not looking for spec sheet quotes, genuinely curious if someones done side by side in a messy RF environment