What does a norma VX1 flight log look like?

[trillian]

edited - started post before your second post.

[trillian]

Thinking about this a bit more there is no way to mount the sats to get opposite polarization of the antenna's in every orientation of the heli, so try it as they are and check logs..... lol

Yeah I had read that article but was still a bit hazy as to exactly what permutations of the relationship between the sats would get enough polarization diversity. Right now I have one parallel to the boom and one 90 degrees to the boom and the heli will be constantly moving relative to the TX.

[10x]

I run a receiver and one sat, The receiver is mounted at the front with the antenna pointing forwards and horizontal and the sat at the back on a piece of plastic sticking out from the frame with antenna's vertical which is ok upright and upside down and going up or down but the antenna's would both be on the same plane when the heli is on its side pointing in any direction....

[myxiplx]

At the moment both sats antenna's are in a horizontal plane, you would be better to have a piece of plastic on the front leg pointing forwards with your sat mounted on that with the antenna vertical....

Doesn't matter at all. So long as the antenna are at 90 degrees to each other they each cover the other's weakspot. With two satellites you're only ever going to cover two of the three 3D axis, but that's not a problem and this layout does give full coverage.

Placement looks good to me trillian.

[George J]

If you can't get a good signal from a sat stuck right out the back of the heli clear of everything then that just goes to show how rubbish that system is! Prefer to fly a system that doesn't have such issues personally.
Be interesting to see the results Sheryl.

[trillian]

I am happy to report that I have a few flights now with the new sats and the logs are very clean, after the startup stuff it's mostly 'nothing to report'. The VX1 light stayed blue. I flew as far and high as I dare and the signal quality is evidently very good now.

Thanks to everyone for your help.

[waveydavey]

If you can't get a good signal from a sat stuck right out the back of the heli clear of everything then that just goes to show how rubbish that system is! Prefer to fly a system that doesn't have such issues personally.
Be interesting to see the results Sheryl.

Not sure it's a rubbish system George, maybe a system that advises you not to block sat wires with carbon frames etc Sheryl positioned the sats in clear space to understand where the logs were coming from. It looks following the exercise that sat positioning is important.