hard to see how those heatsinks are gonna be an improvment unless they connected it also to the rf chip inside.

I think the 500mW unit should not have that heatsink that is only attached to the tin can and and not actually touching any components. Should have a fan instead

Originally Posted by Summitdude

Hobbywireless.

Will try it out soon.

Hurry up i will RMA my if your works because i bought mine from hobbywireless too 10 months ago

Got my 1.3 GHz 200mw RMRC vTX/RX/patch antenna in the mail yesterday! Looking great so far, the vTX is much smaller than I thought. You can read more about it on my site and tune into The FPV PROJECT on my YouTube channel.

Should get decent range from this. I'm still on my stock DX5e for now but hopefully will be upgrading to a UHF in the near future.

Setup was pretty simple and the vTX operates all the way down to 9.9v from my testing so far. I've seen it transmitting on nearly 8v too! It's lightweight and looks solid. Heats up quickly during bench testing but with the proper airflow, that shouldn't be an issue in the skies!

https://sites.google.com/site/djopro.../thefpvproject
http://www.youtube.com/RCDJO







Dan

What sort of range are you hoping to get? Dont plan on going too far with a DX5 and 1.3 vtx with no autopilot failsafe!!!

HA! LOL man I'm not stupid I'm looking for 1/2 mile range to start. I've flown FPV on 2.4 GHz 10mw and 5.8 GHz 600mw so far. Both were OK. But then my 72 MHz radio died and I needed to switch from 2.4 video to something else. 5.8 is OK but I'd like to try out 1.3 GHz

Wow you must be really dependent on your autopilot failsafe thingamabob LOL. You should trust your equipment onboard more than that if you won't fly very far at all without it.



Dan

His point is, your video range now will fairly easily exceed your 2.4Ghz RC range.
You're going to eat up 1/2 mile and then some with a wing like that in no time flat.

ian

Yeah and I've already flew out to about 1/2 mile on 5.8 GHz, 600mw. And yes it is nothing. But I want enough video range to make it there, and so that when I upgrade to a UHF I can have a mile or so of range too.



Dan

Dude you should be able to fly the distance with that 5.8ghz 600mw, all the way to past you RC radio distance on 2.4!

Originally Posted by Daemon

His point is, your video range now will fairly easily exceed your 2.4Ghz RC range.
You're going to eat up 1/2 mile and then some with a wing like that in no time flat.

ian

Could not have said it better myself!!

Originally Posted by Summitdude

Hobbywireless.

Will try it out soon.

My cable didnt fit so i will wait until the end of the week when my new cable comes so dont hold your breaths

Originally Posted by DoctorAudio

Dude you should be able to fly the distance with that 5.8ghz 600mw, all the way to past you RC radio distance on 2.4!

Umm yes and I have done it LOL. But I needed a better frequency for the area and I need an external RX to record from with my laptop and a splitter. My goggles on 5.8 couldn't record... Yes there is AV out but it really doesn't work well



Dan

Originally Posted by Summitdude

My cable didnt fit so i will wait until the end of the week when my new cable comes so dont hold your breaths

which cable didnt fit?

Originally Posted by timtimtim

which cable didnt fit?

I have the cable in the link but the connector on the lawmate vtx is even smaller.
Ordered another cable with large plug that will fit the pigtail that comes with the vtx.

Another solution would be to solder the connector onto the cable i already got but i might need that cable
so dont want to mess with it.

http://www.readymaderc.com/store/ind...aps6h1vf13dlr1

Originally Posted by timtimtim

which cable didnt fit?

Got the cables and stuff but cant really test it properly since it raining here and will for like a week.

I hooked it up and it seems to work fine except the same issue that i have with other
brand VTXs that the audio level is too loud. I have a resistor to make it less loud.

But this may be a problem with the Gopro audio level could be too high.