this has been bugging me for a while now and i finally decided to post about it. every time i fly near the reservoir about 2 miles from my house i start getting signal warnings and sometimes the video feed goes choppy around 400-500 meters out. fly the same drone at the park across town and i can go way further with no issues at all.

im using the RC Pro controller so its not like im on a phone setup. interference maybe? there's some kind of water treatment facility on the other side of the reservoir, not sure if that matters. i always make sure to calibrate the compass before i fly there because i read somewhere that water can mess with it but that doesnt seem to fix the signal thing. no idea if this is a hardware issue or just something about that specific location. anyone dealt with anything like this

water treatment and pumping facilities can have all sorts of RF noise coming off the equipment, especially older infrastructure. id try pulling up a spectrum analyzer app on your phone while youre there and see what the 2.4 and 5.8 bands look like. if they're saturated thats probably your answer. you can try forcing the mavic to 5.8ghz in the DJI fly app transmission settings and see if that helps - sometimes one band is way cleaner than the other depending on whats causing the interference.

yeah reservoirs and anything industrial nearby are usually a nightmare for signal. i had something simlar near a substation once, video was cutting in and out even at like 300m which was bizzare. ended up just finding a different launch spot a bit further away from the equipment and the problem mostly went away. sometimes theres not much else you can do honestly