HorizonHobby.com How To - Antenna Placement When Using Remote Receivers

[HorizonRCdotCom]

The goal is to get the receivers as far up off the ground as possible to ensure they do not see ground clutter interference during take off and landing approaches.

[iSturz]

why do i want to place the remote receivers as far up in the fuse as possible? the explanations in the video don't seem logic to me...

[rbjfarmer]

ok thats alot of work just to make sure your radio works. I mean 4 remote recievers holy crap that starts to become expensive just for a reciever. I traded in my jr radio for a few reasons, 1 of them due to this and the wonderful lockouts in a busy 2.4 enviroment. I grabed a hitec A9 will never go back i have the 7 channel single boda in my 34% extra 300 and never had any issues. I hear the dsmx is a good sysytem but at $100 a reciever compared to $60 for my hitec, as i will not use dsm.

[Juary70]

Do not understand why Futaba doesn't need all these remotes. It works just fine with only one receiver. Nevertheless where's a thumbs up for the nice tutorial.

[G56AG]

Have you considered horizontal and vertical signal polarization? I am a Ham radio operator and experience has proven this can be a tremendous factor in signal strength. If the transmitter antenna is vertically polarized and the receiver is horizontally polarized it can weaken reception. I always keep my Spectrum trans ant pointing vertically, and the receiver ants, one horizontal and one vertical, since the plane changes position, the one closest works the best.

[WalneySkyland]

@G56AG I'm a ham too and the lack of knowledge about cross polarisation issues in the rc world has always mystified me as well. I thought he was going to address it when at one point he briefly showed a vertical antenna but then he totally fizzled out so apparently not even horizon are aware of or bothered about it. Hummmm.....

[bloodhound122]

Thanks for a super job on that tutorial ! helped me out alot.

[freemarlochip]

Very useful information, thanks.