Bardwell, you missed the main point. The real advantage of LHCP antennas is that when you search for them, your results aren't filled with music videos from RHCP (Red Hot Chilli Peppers).
Reminds me of a Harry Enfield comedy sketch where some 'youths' were being interviewed and the interviewee asks one of them why he had a tattoo that says "Individual", the 'youth' replies "cos all my mates got one too"
@@licensetodrive9930 It's finally starting to become less popular...but for a few years every single person put FPV in their pilot name. The name that's supposed to differentiate pilots just all looked and sounded the same.
@@PowerScissor That was to let folks know it was a FPV moniker...not just some made up internet name...there weren't many pilots back then and this made it easier to find them and their content!
I find that having both LHCP and RHCP on the goggles works quite well in the specific case of flying micro quads with linear antennas indoors, where signals can bounce every which way and rarely reach the goggles by direct path.
Thanks for the video JB. It inadvertently answered a more technical question I had. I really appreciate how you don't try to act more knowledgeable than you are, you just come straight out and say, "I'm not sure, " or I don't know. Too many people have an issue saying that. And like I said, I did get my answer not despite that good trait of yours, but BECASUSE of it! Thanks again.
this video, I learned something today. I finally got the answer, see I use LHCP in life and to my understanding of this video it does not talk to RHCP. So this explains the reason why my wife never receives to correct information, she MUST be on RHCP.
Another benefit of having a circular polarized on your goggles when having a linear on you quad is that the orientation of the quad now doesn't have an effect on the attenuation (except on the ends). The 3dB loss in this case is much better than having cross polarization with two linear antenna's.
Thanks Joshua, now I know why I am getting very strong losses from rather close between my quad and goggles at fairly close range. LHCP antenna on order.
Question. I once read somewhere that 3 lobe circular polarized antennas were better for transmitting and 4 lobe for receiving. Is that true? And if it is why don't we have more choices for TX 3 lobe and RX 4 lobe? I do remember seeing some that were marked for either TX or RX but almost all aren't.
Ive always gotten them in pairs and the two sets i have say the same as your saying above with using one for the Drone side and one for the Goggle Side..
I have bought the helical 6 turn antennas for the Dji goggles 2 and would like to use them with the iflight Bob57. Do I need Rhcp or Lhcp for the helical antenna in this case?
I fly LHCP because when I started to fly 4 years ago, I flew with many people. We were usually as much as 8, trying to fly in groups of 4. VTx were garbage, people were doing stupid things on the spot like powering when others were flying, not knowing what channel and what band were their VTx, and everybody was struggling. VTx were burning , because the quads were grounded, and we waiting for the video problems to be sold. And since everybody was using RHCP except one (and he was having less problems than the other), I chose to use LHCP myself. And it works, we were 2 peoples watching the other struggling with glitches. Then I was the fastest of the group because instead everyone else, I chose to use Skyzones googles, so I was actually the only person to see were I was going in our all metal mall carpark^^ And since it worked well, I continue to do so!
A linear antenna’s polarization will change as the orientation changes. Horizontal antenna will equal horizontally polarized and vertical antenna will be vertically polarized. For the best signal both antennas should match each other. Hard to do with a moving quad.
Correct. In an indoor environment this is somewhat mitigated because the reflected signals have polarization that depends on the angle of the bounce. If there are enough bounces, there will be some signal that is mostly aligned.
There is a scenario where you can use both a left and right hand polarised antenna with a diversity reciever while broadcasting from a single polarised antenna on the quad as a reflected signal has opposite polarisation and may be stronger when your quad goes behind an occlusion. As the diversity switches not combines you should not see the mixed polarised cross signal interference during non occluded flight as the opposite polarised antenna will be rejecting the reverse polarisation.
That is my thought as well. All my quads have whips & unless I am flying at a distance, I always use a LHCP & RHCP on my diversity. Very rarely does the signal drop out when the quad is obstructed. For instance, a whoop indoors gets a clean signal all the time where a CP + patch drops out.
@@MilitantPeaceist Yep indoor use is a good example of it's usefulness. It's a shame more recievers don't have 4 inputs then you could have both a LHCP and RHCP long range antenna like pepper boxes or helical or patches.
GPS is a RHCP system, but its harmonic are probably way too low to impact anything we use. But I was wondering if any other common system we use or are in our environment (cities: cell? ..?) could affect circular polarized signals, in either left or right, making the other choice better for certain environment?
Yes it can matter because most antennas and vTX are tuned better to one channel than another. But without test equipment you can't know for sure which channels are best.
Once a signal bounces off of something it changes polarization. If you have the opposite polarization antenna on your goggles you should still be able to receive the signal after the first bounce (every odd numbered bounce). This is a situation that needs multipath (at least one hop).
Unless the direct LOS is occluded, the LOS will always be stronger than the bounce. The only time opposite polarization is stronger is when it is bouncing around an obstacle.
Many quads like HappyModel come with a small linear antenna. Instead of using a rubber ducky style linear 5.8Ghz antenna on the goggles, using something like the Menace RC Bandicoot linear patch antenna would be better than either a LH or RH circular polarized antenna. If so, what complimentary antenna would you suggest using diversify? Two Menace linear patches? Thank for your great vids!
i just keep learning more and more ,,,finally something i can still do that doesnt hurt me to bad to do it and thats fly , fly , fly ,,,its so amazing of a feeling i just cant quit dreaming of flying faster and higher and then dive bombing a tree after doing a split S over it.....yayyy i cant wait to see where this road takes me next
I'm pretty sure your antenna expert guest you interviewed said that when a polarized signal bounces off an object, it reverses polarity. So if you had one RH-CP on on side of your goggles and a LH-CP on the other side , you would receive those reflections but at a slightly later time (ms's) creating a double image. Would I be wrong to assume that ?
OK, so this might be a stupid question. I only run linear antennas on my quads. Should I not be adding one linear and 1 polorised antenna to my Googles.? Maybe that's why Skyzone gives you those crappy antennas. They will "work" with all quads.
I still would run 2x circular because circular antennas don't depend on the orientation of the other antenna while linear antennas can have up to 15ndn of loss or more of they are cross polarized.
After reading the title I thought there's not much to learn from this. But as always, Bardwell proved me wrong.. =) I really WAS learning something today.
Question - if i have linear antenna ( Diople Antenna ) on my goggles and i'm going to build a quad with circular RHCP antenna will it work? ( i know you talked about similar case but example was a bit different - you talked about linear on quad -> cicrular on goggles, in my case its other way around)
Yes . But Linear polarized will work with both RHCP and LHCP tx antenna. However you loose 50% power. Like using a 100mW over a 200mW one. When used with a dipole, you get 100%, but as long as both are aligned.
This is a tough question to answer. The good thing about linear is, when the polarization lines up, you have 0 dB loss. But if the signal is 90 degrees alignment, you have lots of loss. And the problem with linear is that the alignment of the antenna determines the polarization. So as the quad rotates and turns, the polarization of the signal is constantly changing. In my opinion, this is one really good thing about circular polarized antennas: their polarization is independent of the alignment of the quad. If you have a linear on the quad and a linear on the goggles, then worst-case you could end up with a lot of loss. But if you have a diversity system with two omni antennas 90 degrees to each other, then the chances of cross-polarization are smaller. And if you are in an environment with lots of multipath, then the chances of getting a bounce with "correct" polarization are higher (but on the flip-side, now you are dealing with multipath). In my opinion, it's best to pair linear on the quad with circular on the goggles. You get a constant 3 dB of loss, but the polarization is always "sort of correct" and never "totally incorrect". But in the end, you have to test your specific circumstances and see what works best. Sometimes it will be two linears.
what about which side you MOUNT an RHCP or LHCP onto your goggles? Regardless of communication with the the antenna on the drone... I am referring to the mounting side... cuz I am starting out, and im not worried about other pilots as I fly alone... Sooo....with just starting my purchasing of upgrading from the stock antennaes, I can just build around what antenna I have on my goggles... Cuz I dont have any drones; yet.. (ou probably already know that story)
I fly dipoles on almost all my models for weight, durability and the fact they're practically free especially. After testing even a cheap Chinese skew planar seemed to perform way better on the rx than two matching dipoles at 90 degrees to each other, especially in a high multi path environment. I'm not sure why this is but, something that goes against that is I replaced a helical I was using with a bi-quad because bi-quads are linear and the helical seemed to suck with linear. I instantly noticed a big improvement. I'm not a 100% why exactly the skew planar seems to be better considering everything says it should be worse but, one thing that is as the theory suggests is that in an open field the linear antenna's on the rx do give a bit more range with more static and breakup towards the limits when banking a plane or flipping a quad. So for me it's a no brainer to run a sp on the goggles because it provides more reliable coverage close in and indoors or around obstacles and if I want to fly farther out that's what the bi-quad is for. I need to make up some omni directional bi-quads and see if that helps because I kind of wonder if having a loop vs open antenna is the reason it performs better considering the bi-quad performed so much better than a helical. Another thing I would like to try is running two dipoles on a rapidfire or clearview to see if that improves anything.
Simple answer: the circular RX-antenna allways loose 3dB which is not much, but the direction of the linear TX-antenna does not matter any more. This is good because the kwad is rolling and pitching all the time. A linear as RX-antenna looses ~20dB when it is horizontal while the TX is vertical and that is a lot. Here the diversity has to switch all the time just for keeping up with the direction. I use the same trick with my transmitter. I have a 2.4G-cloverleaf on the transmitter because all receivers use that linear wire-antennas. This give me a better range with less failsafes. There is no more need to mount the receiver-antennas 90° to each other but more freedom to mount them so that at least one is not obstructed by the kwad.
What if you are buying a pre made drone and are not sure which antenna is on the aircraft, Im trying to purchase goggles right now and want to make sure I match the antenna. Your videos are amazing !!!
And what about using a 3-way splitter and two antennas on one sma connector? Do these will work better than only one antenna or there will be no difference? Of course both on the same polarization or both linear.
How do you know what Polarization is on a BetaFPV 65 or 75 Mini whoop?....my camera comes in fine through my FatShark goggles but when checking the camera through my monitor the video is semi scrambled?....is this the problem the wrong Polarization from the whoop to the monitor? Thanks!
When i started out in FPV had seen some where that if you run right on the kwad you run left on the goggles know wonder video has been crap thanks i did learn something today from the master
I just sent you a message today talking about Reception issues on Instagram. Then here I am at 10:25 at night and I come across this video. Thank you so much for making this video way back then for me to find now. But if you do have any insight for the VTX that I’m using that I sent you on Instagram, please feel free to reply there.
"You're going to learn something today." I think this is the first time I learned nothing from a Joshua Bardwell video. I suppose the title kind of gave it away but you've always been right when you've said I'd learn sometime. I'm not mad, just disappointed. (Apparently I'm also a bit grumpy.) Happy Independence Day everyone.
i have to agree man, this video was scraping the bottom of the idea barrel in a pretty bad way , how about a video on the topic best channel for a specific antenna?
@@TheMadmacs That'd be a rather pointless video too. All these components have imperfections and acceptable levels of variations within their manufacturers QC processes. What would be cool, is a demonstration of some spectrum analysis with a HackRF one or something equivalent to find bands with the least amount of garbage on them in an area not at that property.
@@snfn7847 i think antenna have a fairly pronounced bias to a particular part of the frequencies we use and its not always about QC, the thickness of the wire used is probably a big part of any bias , and also the protection covering the antenna, both of these are not really subject to variation. and even if they arent consistent then that in itself would be useful.
I recently purchased a 4 inch X-Knight and it came with a LHCP antenna. I only have RHCP antennas except for a couple of triple feed patches. I can’t tell any difference running a RHCP with the LHCP. Are you aware any videos demonstrating the effects of mixing antennas? I can’t seem to find any.
You should see reduced range when using LH and RH antenna's together, vs. both the same. If you don't see any difference, one explanation would be that the antennas are not actually strongly polarized.
I really appreciate the quick response thank you. I haven’t noticed any degradation in range. I even switched my triple feed patch over to the LHCP side and it didn’t seem to make any difference.
Hi JB. I run a triple feed patch on my ground station with RH pagodas on my craft. What thinks you about the triple feed patch? they are both left and right at the change of the dongle? Happy flying!!!!
Is there actually any Diversity receivers that have more than 2 receivers built-in? i could imagine just plastering everything with patchantennas and get ultimate signal strength :P honestly though - wouldnt it be beneficial to have two or more directional antennas plus a backup omni? or would a system like that be too powerhungry?
@@JoshuaBardwell oh really? Did you make/plan on making a review/informational video on any of those? That'd be really interesting - I mean two antennas on a goggle work really well but wouldn't a "bando groundstation" or something similar be nifty as well?
Have you thought about doing an NTSC vs PAL comparison video? You could call it "NTSC isn't always your PAL" :) The reason I suggest that title is due to dot crawl and rainbow artifacts - detail, and especially RF noise, can cause rainbow 'shimmer' artifacts in an NTSC signal. It looks colourful but makes it more difficult to see the actual detail of the environment you're flying in. I noticed how bad it can get in Rotor Riot's recent video "Winning a Drone Race with Captain Vanover!" where the FPV feed goes super colourful when flying inside the sports hall. PAL has 20% more pixels and doesn't suffer that rainbow affliction but with the slightly slower framerate the footage doesn't look as smooth as NTSC on TH-cam because most people's displays are running at 60hz.
When I had a camera that was switchable between PAL and NTSC, I preferred the PAL signal. It gave a noticeably better picture and the drop in frame rate was not an issue.
Or you fly with Eachine EV200D's like me. I have left CP and Left Patch on the left side and Right CP and Right patch on the right side then I have the best of both worlds at races. I can fly with either depending on who i'm racing by just changing my quad antenna and I can spectate no problem :-)
To be fair you could get better reception at a race with non-rapidfire type diversity system running lhcp and rhcp antennas. The reason being that the high gain secondary antenna will be more susceptible to multipathing (due to the gain) so by eliminating the diversity and forcing use of the low gain antenna you could reduce multipathing at the cost of range which you probably don't need too much. Additionally a lot of race environments are pretty multipathy.
Hi if my goggles have two antennas do i fit two left or two right, or do i just need one and leave other empty cheers anyone, ime looking to upgrade my antennas on my goggles.
Yeah but What IF i got an SMA T adapter THEN put a Left and Right Hand polarized stubby antenna on my Qwad, THEN i can have Right hand and Left Hand antennas on my Goggles and not lose diversity. Didnt think about that now did you?? :P you didnt go there so i had to!! :P (just kidding great video as always!! )
@@JoshuaBardwell Dammit Man!!!! just when i thought i had it all figured out ur knowledge rains on my parade!! :P this is why we cant have nice things!! :P
Bardwell, you missed the main point. The real advantage of LHCP antennas is that when you search for them, your results aren't filled with music videos from RHCP (Red Hot Chilli Peppers).
Don't give it away now!
Lead hot chillie peppers
Haha
I just had that problem!😄
Hahahahah, this is golden
One case for buying LHCP when everybody else is using RHCP is that your favourite brand of antennas will _always_ be in stock.
"i run left because everybody runs right" said every single FPV pilot
Everyone i fly with has linears on their quads...
Reminds me of a Harry Enfield comedy sketch where some 'youths' were being interviewed and the interviewee asks one of them why he had a tattoo that says "Individual", the 'youth' replies "cos all my mates got one too"
@@licensetodrive9930 It's finally starting to become less popular...but for a few years every single person put FPV in their pilot name. The name that's supposed to differentiate pilots just all looked and sounded the same.
@@PowerScissor That was to let folks know it was a FPV moniker...not just some made up internet name...there weren't many pilots back then and this made it easier to find them and their content!
Because ppl say that I fly rhcp 😂😂😂
Your hand gesture for Left Hand Right hand was for the viewer. 1:14 Now thats attention to detail!!
I find that having both LHCP and RHCP on the goggles works quite well in the specific case of flying micro quads with linear antennas indoors, where signals can bounce every which way and rarely reach the goggles by direct path.
Gotta love how JB has a vid for everything!
Thanks for the video JB. It inadvertently answered a more technical question I had. I really appreciate how you don't try to act more knowledgeable than you are, you just come straight out and say, "I'm not sure, " or I don't know. Too many people have an issue saying that. And like I said, I did get my answer not despite that good trait of yours, but BECASUSE of it! Thanks again.
this video, I learned something today. I finally got the answer, see I use LHCP in life and to my understanding of this video it does not talk to RHCP. So this explains the reason why my wife never receives to correct information, she MUST be on RHCP.
Lol
Perfect timing, now I can close about 20 tabs in chrome!
Lol
Another benefit of having a circular polarized on your goggles when having a linear on you quad is that the orientation of the quad now doesn't have an effect on the attenuation (except on the ends). The 3dB loss in this case is much better than having cross polarization with two linear antenna's.
Thanks Joshua, now I know why I am getting very strong losses from rather close between my quad and goggles at fairly close range. LHCP antenna on order.
This was an old video, but as a newbie FPV pilots..this was a very Big help..thank you sooo much🙏
yeah good thing the physics of electromagnetism hasn’t changed in the last year.
Thanks for the simple yet in depth explanation of these antennas!
Question. I once read somewhere that 3 lobe circular polarized antennas were better for transmitting and 4 lobe for receiving. Is that true? And if it is why don't we have more choices for TX 3 lobe and RX 4 lobe? I do remember seeing some that were marked for either TX or RX but almost all aren't.
Ive always gotten them in pairs and the two sets i have say the same as your saying above with using one for the Drone side and one for the Goggle Side..
I have bought the helical 6 turn antennas for the Dji goggles 2 and would like to use them with the iflight Bob57. Do I need Rhcp or Lhcp for the helical antenna in this case?
I fly LHCP because when I started to fly 4 years ago, I flew with many people. We were usually as much as 8, trying to fly in groups of 4. VTx were garbage, people were doing stupid things on the spot like powering when others were flying, not knowing what channel and what band were their VTx, and everybody was struggling. VTx were burning , because the quads were grounded, and we waiting for the video problems to be sold. And since everybody was using RHCP except one (and he was having less problems than the other), I chose to use LHCP myself.
And it works, we were 2 peoples watching the other struggling with glitches. Then I was the fastest of the group because instead everyone else, I chose to use Skyzones googles, so I was actually the only person to see were I was going in our all metal mall carpark^^
And since it worked well, I continue to do so!
Still using lhcp for analog googles?both of them are lhcp or?
Further down the rabbit hole we go...
A linear antenna’s polarization will change as the orientation changes. Horizontal antenna will equal horizontally polarized and vertical antenna will be vertically polarized. For the best signal both antennas should match each other. Hard to do with a moving quad.
Correct. In an indoor environment this is somewhat mitigated because the reflected signals have polarization that depends on the angle of the bounce. If there are enough bounces, there will be some signal that is mostly aligned.
There is a scenario where you can use both a left and right hand polarised antenna with a diversity reciever while broadcasting from a single polarised antenna on the quad as a reflected signal has opposite polarisation and may be stronger when your quad goes behind an occlusion. As the diversity switches not combines you should not see the mixed polarised cross signal interference during non occluded flight as the opposite polarised antenna will be rejecting the reverse polarisation.
That is my thought as well.
All my quads have whips & unless I am flying at a distance, I always use a LHCP & RHCP on my diversity. Very rarely does the signal drop out when the quad is obstructed. For instance, a whoop indoors gets a clean signal all the time where a CP + patch drops out.
@@MilitantPeaceist Yep indoor use is a good example of it's usefulness. It's a shame more recievers don't have 4 inputs then you could have both a LHCP and RHCP long range antenna like pepper boxes or helical or patches.
I was learnt today!
Straighten up and fly right .... 🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶
And don’t get left behind?
how about tear down of those antennas to see difference in construction
Great review. Exactly what many have been waiting for
Thank you for your video!!!! You answered my questions. Subscribed!
GPS is a RHCP system, but its harmonic are probably way too low to impact anything we use.
But I was wondering if any other common system we use or are in our environment (cities: cell? ..?) could affect circular polarized signals, in either left or right, making the other choice better for certain environment?
I learned a lot from this! Thanks Josh!
Say I'm flying alone, does the channel I run on effect reception depending on antennas on goggles and antennas on quad etc?
Yes it can matter because most antennas and vTX are tuned better to one channel than another. But without test equipment you can't know for sure which channels are best.
Once a signal bounces off of something it changes polarization. If you have the opposite polarization antenna on your goggles you should still be able to receive the signal after the first bounce (every odd numbered bounce). This is a situation that needs multipath (at least one hop).
Unless the direct LOS is occluded, the LOS will always be stronger than the bounce. The only time opposite polarization is stronger is when it is bouncing around an obstacle.
Many quads like HappyModel come with a small linear antenna. Instead of using a rubber ducky style linear 5.8Ghz antenna on the goggles, using something like the Menace RC Bandicoot linear patch antenna would be better than either a LH or RH circular polarized antenna. If so, what complimentary antenna would you suggest using diversify? Two Menace linear patches?
Thank for your great vids!
How about the DJI FPV drone, What really he need polarization LHCP or RHCP antenna?
i just keep learning more and more ,,,finally something i can still do that doesnt hurt me to bad to do it and thats fly , fly , fly ,,,its so amazing of a feeling i just cant quit dreaming of flying faster and higher and then dive bombing a tree after doing a split S over it.....yayyy i cant wait to see where this road takes me next
I was just about to do my own research on this literally as you were making this video lol your the best
Is your end music the death tune homage for a battery?
Great video, Is that why they come in pairs? one for the quad and one for the goggles?
Fantastic, Joshua! Thanks a lot! 😊
I hope your voice is better!
I'm pretty sure your antenna expert guest you interviewed said that when a polarized signal bounces off an object, it reverses polarity. So if you had one RH-CP on on side of your goggles and a LH-CP on the other side , you would receive those reflections but at a slightly later time (ms's) creating a double image. Would I be wrong to assume that ?
The signal wouldn't reach you ms's later. Two cause a delay of 1ms, one signal would have to travel 300.000m further than the other.
Nice one Josh, thanks for posting 👍👍
What are those goggles in the background? At the bench
5:00 oh THAT's why the EV200D exists :D
OK, so this might be a stupid question. I only run linear antennas on my quads. Should I not be adding one linear and 1 polorised antenna to my Googles.? Maybe that's why Skyzone gives you those crappy antennas. They will "work" with all quads.
I still would run 2x circular because circular antennas don't depend on the orientation of the other antenna while linear antennas can have up to 15ndn of loss or more of they are cross polarized.
Good info! I was really hoping you would get back to the last issue of linear tx to circular rx.
After reading the title I thought there's not much to learn from this. But as always, Bardwell proved me wrong.. =)
I really WAS learning something today.
Left or right don’t matter , crazy test
Question - if i have linear antenna ( Diople Antenna ) on my goggles and i'm going to build a quad with circular RHCP antenna will it work? ( i know you talked about similar case but example was a bit different - you talked about linear on quad -> cicrular on goggles, in my case its other way around)
Same effect.
If you have a linear whip on the quad, is it better to use a linear patch on the goggle?
Yes .
But Linear polarized will work with both RHCP and LHCP tx antenna. However you loose 50% power. Like using a 100mW over a 200mW one. When used with a dipole, you get 100%, but as long as both are aligned.
This is a tough question to answer. The good thing about linear is, when the polarization lines up, you have 0 dB loss. But if the signal is 90 degrees alignment, you have lots of loss. And the problem with linear is that the alignment of the antenna determines the polarization. So as the quad rotates and turns, the polarization of the signal is constantly changing.
In my opinion, this is one really good thing about circular polarized antennas: their polarization is independent of the alignment of the quad.
If you have a linear on the quad and a linear on the goggles, then worst-case you could end up with a lot of loss. But if you have a diversity system with two omni antennas 90 degrees to each other, then the chances of cross-polarization are smaller. And if you are in an environment with lots of multipath, then the chances of getting a bounce with "correct" polarization are higher (but on the flip-side, now you are dealing with multipath).
In my opinion, it's best to pair linear on the quad with circular on the goggles. You get a constant 3 dB of loss, but the polarization is always "sort of correct" and never "totally incorrect".
But in the end, you have to test your specific circumstances and see what works best. Sometimes it will be two linears.
what about which side you MOUNT an RHCP or LHCP onto your goggles?
Regardless of communication with the the antenna on the drone...
I am referring to the mounting side... cuz I am starting out, and im not worried about other pilots as I fly alone...
Sooo....with just starting my purchasing of upgrading from the stock antennaes, I can just build around what antenna I have on my goggles... Cuz I dont have any drones; yet.. (ou probably already know that story)
I fly dipoles on almost all my models for weight, durability and the fact they're practically free especially. After testing even a cheap Chinese skew planar seemed to perform way better on the rx than two matching dipoles at 90 degrees to each other, especially in a high multi path environment. I'm not sure why this is but, something that goes against that is I replaced a helical I was using with a bi-quad because bi-quads are linear and the helical seemed to suck with linear. I instantly noticed a big improvement. I'm not a 100% why exactly the skew planar seems to be better considering everything says it should be worse but, one thing that is as the theory suggests is that in an open field the linear antenna's on the rx do give a bit more range with more static and breakup towards the limits when banking a plane or flipping a quad.
So for me it's a no brainer to run a sp on the goggles because it provides more reliable coverage close in and indoors or around obstacles and if I want to fly farther out that's what the bi-quad is for. I need to make up some omni directional bi-quads and see if that helps because I kind of wonder if having a loop vs open antenna is the reason it performs better considering the bi-quad performed so much better than a helical. Another thing I would like to try is running two dipoles on a rapidfire or clearview to see if that improves anything.
Simple answer: the circular RX-antenna allways loose 3dB which is not much, but the direction of the linear TX-antenna does not matter any more. This is good because the kwad is rolling and pitching all the time. A linear as RX-antenna looses ~20dB when it is horizontal while the TX is vertical and that is a lot. Here the diversity has to switch all the time just for keeping up with the direction.
I use the same trick with my transmitter. I have a 2.4G-cloverleaf on the transmitter because all receivers use that linear wire-antennas. This give me a better range with less failsafes. There is no more need to mount the receiver-antennas 90° to each other but more freedom to mount them so that at least one is not obstructed by the kwad.
A seller told me that if i use analog i must be use RHCP for best signal and LHCP for digital,is it true,my dear?
Not really. Most analog vTX are used with RH, and DJI uses LH. But that is just a convention. It's not a technical requirement.
Right hand polarized is best, because that's all I buy. Thanks for your great review and your hard work Joshua.
If that's all you buy, how would you know which is best?
Because that person is a narcissist @@burtpanzer
What if you are buying a pre made drone and are not sure which antenna is on the aircraft, Im trying to purchase goggles right now and want to make sure I match the antenna. Your videos are amazing !!!
If you aren't sure, it's almost always RH.
And what about using a 3-way splitter and two antennas on one sma connector? Do these will work better than only one antenna or there will be no difference? Of course both on the same polarization or both linear.
@JoshuaBardwell im buying another drone how do i know if it LHCP or RHCP
hi josh and community....my drone has linear vtx antenna..can i use rhcp on my goggles..wil make it better worse or same??
Hello bardwell I've got a problem with one of my little brushed drone how can I get ahold of you for help ...sorry it's off topic
Nice video Joshua!
Im rather curious about this. I fly lhcp, my buddy flys rhcp yet we have no issues spectating each other with perfectly clear signal on both sides.
Awesome video , a lot of good information again , thank you sir.
How do you know what Polarization is on a BetaFPV 65 or 75 Mini whoop?....my camera comes in fine through my FatShark goggles but when checking the camera through my monitor the video is semi scrambled?....is this the problem the wrong Polarization from the whoop to the monitor? Thanks!
Which is better for spectating all day? One left and one right antenna and you lose diversity, or two linear antennas?
When i started out in FPV had seen some where that if you run right on the kwad you run left on the goggles know wonder video has been crap thanks i did learn something today from the master
That's my groups shirt!!! Hell yeah man rep it.
I just sent you a message today talking about Reception issues on Instagram. Then here I am at 10:25 at night and I come across this video. Thank you so much for making this video way back then for me to find now. But if you do have any insight for the VTX that I’m using that I sent you on Instagram, please feel free to reply there.
"You're going to learn something today."
I think this is the first time I learned nothing from a Joshua Bardwell video.
I suppose the title kind of gave it away but you've always been right when you've said I'd learn sometime.
I'm not mad, just disappointed. (Apparently I'm also a bit grumpy.)
Happy Independence Day everyone.
Eventually, my goal is for you to be smarter than me!
i have to agree man, this video was scraping the bottom of the idea barrel in a pretty bad way , how about a video on the topic best channel for a specific antenna?
But if like Joshua says, he gets asked this question a lot, this is a good way of answering all future queries just by pointing to this video.
@@TheMadmacs That'd be a rather pointless video too. All these components have imperfections and acceptable levels of variations within their manufacturers QC processes. What would be cool, is a demonstration of some spectrum analysis with a HackRF one or something equivalent to find bands with the least amount of garbage on them in an area not at that property.
@@snfn7847 i think antenna have a fairly pronounced bias to a particular part of the frequencies we use and its not always about QC, the thickness of the wire used is probably a big part of any bias , and also the protection covering the antenna, both of these are not really subject to variation. and even if they arent consistent then that in itself would be useful.
I recently purchased a 4 inch X-Knight and it came with a LHCP antenna. I only have RHCP antennas except for a couple of triple feed patches. I can’t tell any difference running a RHCP with the LHCP. Are you aware any videos demonstrating the effects of mixing antennas? I can’t seem to find any.
You should see reduced range when using LH and RH antenna's together, vs. both the same. If you don't see any difference, one explanation would be that the antennas are not actually strongly polarized.
I really appreciate the quick response thank you. I haven’t noticed any degradation in range. I even switched my triple feed patch over to the LHCP side and it didn’t seem to make any difference.
I'm looking to upgrade the antenna for signal/video on my tinyhawk 2 ( tiny white one ) ? Can you help
What about a triple feed patch that can switch between lh and rh
Like a shovel... I dig it!
Thank you for that explanation!
I did learn something today. Thank you
Are three leaf and four leaf antennas compatible
Yes.
@Joshua Bardwell is it correct that the Cloverleaf (3 elements) and Skewplaner (4 elements) should go on the VTx and VRx respectively ?
I already knew the answer from your livestreams but I still enjoyed the video very much. ^^
Why don't we use circular polarized antenna's on our radio gear?
Thanks again Joshua!!
Just a quick thank you ☺️
Hi JB. I run a triple feed patch on my ground station with RH pagodas on my craft. What thinks you about the triple feed patch? they are both left and right at the change of the dongle? Happy flying!!!!
so are parch antenna Left right or linear ? Was looking at fatshark but im pretty lost
Patch antennas can be any polarization.
Is there actually any Diversity receivers that have more than 2 receivers built-in? i could imagine just plastering everything with patchantennas and get ultimate signal strength :P
honestly though - wouldnt it be beneficial to have two or more directional antennas plus a backup omni? or would a system like that be too powerhungry?
The Eachine EV200D has four receivers. There was also a Turnigy receiver called the Overlord that had six receivers.
@@JoshuaBardwell oh really? Did you make/plan on making a review/informational video on any of those? That'd be really interesting - I mean two antennas on a goggle work really well but wouldn't a "bando groundstation" or something similar be nifty as well?
Have you thought about doing an NTSC vs PAL comparison video? You could call it "NTSC isn't always your PAL" :)
The reason I suggest that title is due to dot crawl and rainbow artifacts - detail, and especially RF noise, can cause rainbow 'shimmer' artifacts in an NTSC signal. It looks colourful but makes it more difficult to see the actual detail of the environment you're flying in.
I noticed how bad it can get in Rotor Riot's recent video "Winning a Drone Race with Captain Vanover!" where the FPV feed goes super colourful when flying inside the sports hall.
PAL has 20% more pixels and doesn't suffer that rainbow affliction but with the slightly slower framerate the footage doesn't look as smooth as NTSC on TH-cam because most people's displays are running at 60hz.
When I had a camera that was switchable between PAL and NTSC, I preferred the PAL signal. It gave a noticeably better picture and the drop in frame rate was not an issue.
what if your buying a micro drone with no antenna specs, should i just go with RHCP antenna ( i need to choose for my HDO2 goggle bundle)
That's probably right.
Thanks
what does my ImmersionRC 200mW VTX use? Thanks!
Thank you Joshua this video was VERY helpful for me, before I was very confused about witch type of antenna to get but now I know wich will work🔛🔝
Tinyhawk II uses linear so I need linear antennas for goggles?
Thanks for the video, you saved my day! :)
If anything I find it so hard to find LHCP antennas, whereas RHCPs are so abundant
Or you fly with Eachine EV200D's like me. I have left CP and Left Patch on the left side and Right CP and Right patch on the right side then I have the best of both worlds at races. I can fly with either depending on who i'm racing by just changing my quad antenna and I can spectate no problem :-)
It's a scientifically proven fact that RHCP is best in the northern hemisphere and LHCP is best in the southern hemisphere ; )
Where did you get this information?
ah, the coriolis effect
Is LHCP a cover band for RHCP?
is that true ?
Im feeling now so western
Good information.
To be fair you could get better reception at a race with non-rapidfire type diversity system running lhcp and rhcp antennas. The reason being that the high gain secondary antenna will be more susceptible to multipathing (due to the gain) so by eliminating the diversity and forcing use of the low gain antenna you could reduce multipathing at the cost of range which you probably don't need too much. Additionally a lot of race environments are pretty multipathy.
I always picked rhcp because when I was starting they were kind of like the main type but I go lhcp now because it has a lot more stock available
Yea same rhcp are always out of stock or back ordered now
Hi if my goggles have two antennas do i fit two left or two right, or do i just need one and leave other empty cheers anyone, ime looking to upgrade my antennas on my goggles.
Two of the same, matching your quad.
what is on a mobula 6 i am new to this does it matter for tiny whoops??
Mob6 is linear.
Thank you just answered my question
What about circular on the quad, and linear on goggles? Actually seems to work better for me than circular on both. Thanks for the vid!
Yeah but What IF i got an SMA T adapter THEN put a Left and Right Hand polarized stubby antenna on my Qwad, THEN i can have Right hand and Left Hand antennas on my Goggles and not lose diversity. Didnt think about that now did you?? :P you didnt go there so i had to!! :P (just kidding great video as always!! )
The impedance of the antenna will not be correct if you use a simple parallel splitter.
@@JoshuaBardwell Dammit Man!!!! just when i thought i had it all figured out ur knowledge rains on my parade!! :P this is why we cant have nice things!! :P
@@JoshuaBardwell The parallel splitter takes Cialis for its impedance problems, so that fixes that!! :P
who's the Smarty NOW!! :P)
I ran rhcp and lhcp for quite a time... 400m range on 1w vtx power is not nice
Thanks!
Answered at 2:23 mark.
1 Left & 1 Right on a small printed circuit board is clearly the best!
Good look quad boss!