Hello fellow flyboys and girls.
Thanks to the birthday celebration of Mr. DJI I could finally afford the 599 Euro Phantom 3S.
RTF was promised - an internet connection was needed and a firmware update was forced - GRR.
Ok it stopped at 45% and then a longer than 40 min screeching / beeping drove me nuts until the internet told me to get the update file from the phone and put it on the camera SD card.
Tried that and after a couple times the progress bar reached 100%. - JAY
The first careful flights and the first photos and videos - WOW
Trying over 100 meter (300 feet) from home horizontal and vertical soon reached the limit of my little Phantom.
DANG - I should have spend the 50% more to get the Advanced for 899 Euros.
Thanks to the DJI "how the antenna works"  video I learned that it is not a good idea to just start and go up and how the antenna has to be in relation the the quadcopter.
Further research introduced the "windsurfer" what I thought was a little figure on top of the Phantom (hey I saw a Santa Phantom flying around).

Here are the fruits from my research and my free solution to extend the range of the to 50mw crippled CE compliant Phantom 3 Standard.
enjoy



and thank you again for the nice price DJI

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Yes, many come to realize that the extra few hundred dollars gets you more than your money's worth with the Advanced. It doesn't take long to figure out that most people will feel limited by the range of the Standard and messing around with aftermarket range extenders will yield limited results for quite a few that try them.

I speak from experience.

danieldust Posted at 2016-2-11 21:22
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sorry, should be fixed now

Great test video glad you got the extended range.  Enjoy your Drone

As shown in the video above, over 720 meter range with CD reflector compared to 570 meter  without (both at 30 meters above ground
healthydrones.com/main?share=MjU2Nw

and in another test over 1000 meter with 50 meters above the ground
healthydrones.com/main?share=MjU2OA