Davepa
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Yes Les it works, I was getting around 400 metres without it, on a good day, and the RC signal with stock antenna took me slightly further than that before it also called it a day. A couple of weeks ago I made a simple parabolic reflector for the 5.8ghz stock antenna for the RC signal and ran the fpv booster app for the 2.4 ghz fpv signal. I flew my P2V+ up on Dartmoor and reached 1500 metres. I had a smartphone screen recorder running so have a complete record of the flight including all the data on the vision app smartphone screen so have proof of the flight distance.
At 1500 metres the fpv view was still OK but I'd reached my pre set range limit (1500 metres) so the quadcopter stopped at that point and it returned home as my control RC control signal also dropped at around that point.
Be aware though that there are plenty of messages on the www.phantompilots.com forum about the fpv booster app working by pumping up the output power, rather than by some fancy fine tuning of the wifi signal as the fpv booster info claims. This could potentially cause the fpv electronics to overheat and cause the wifi unit to fry. It hasn't happened to mine, yet, and I've now just modded my wifi unit to improve the heat sinking of the components in it, again as described on phantompilots and on youtube.
Happy flying but do you want to go that far is the question I'd ask?. I lost sight of my P2v+ at around 500 metres so was relying purely on the fpv signal from that point on.
Just noticed that the app I used is "fpv booster app" for P2V+ only, not the one Les referred to, so apologies for that error
Dave
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