longislandcampe
lvl.1
United States
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So last night I attempted to fly my P3A to a POI about 5,000' from me. When I got to about 3,300' the bird lost signal and turned around. I was a little disappointed so I went inside and built some windsurfer antennaes. They looked great and I was excited so I went outside to test them only to find it raining. :-(
So I woke up today and was excited to find a partly cloudy day with no rain so once the temps got to around 40F I went outside with my windsurfers and attempted the same flight. Much to my dismay the bird only got to about 2,500' when it lost signal and turned around. With the windsurfers on I got 800' LESS distance. :-(
I understand the signal becomes more directional once the windsurfers are installed but is there a general guideline on how to point the antennaes, how high on the anteanna to place the windsurfers or anything along those lines?
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