Cross Hair vs Helical Ground Station FPV Test

by bmsweb | January 30, 2013 | (7) Posted in Reviews

Jason, finished building a Cross Hair FPV Ground station and the idea was to test its performance as compared to the Helical. This video was videoed on the same day as the 3k flight I did with the Bixler, so once again no OSD video due to SD Card not working in my Sandisk DVR. Our expectation were pretty high but unfortunately it didn't come close to the Helical. At one point around the 8klm mark, it became apparent that Jason's Helical which was on our Ground Station was doing way better and he ended up swapping over to the Helical.

Understand this doesn't prove the Helical is a better antenna or anything like that. Its just sharing our findings on this one flight and sharing what we learn. 

 

FPV Aircaft
Airframe: FPV Raptor Composite 1600mm
Battery: Turnigy 2200mAh x 2
Camera: BEV-KX121-PAL
OSD: Cyclops Nova
RC RX: RMILEC RD4047P
RC TX: Turnigy 9X, RMILEC TS4047 Module
Video RX: Boscam RC305 5.8GHz with Helical Antenna
Video TX: Boscam TS353 5.8 GHz 400mW with Cloverleaf Antenna
Weather: Relative Humidity 50%, Temperature 20°C, Wind SE 15km/h
Misc.: Liquid Image Ego HD Camera
FPV Goggles: Vuzix 310XL

COMMENTS

SepolP on January 30, 2013
Nice video, congrats.
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Cross Hair vs Helical Ground Station FPV Test