"I have a few of the Sky Surfers (same as a Bixler).  One is a dedicated LED night flyer, one I modded with flaps and added a Ready Made RC camera pod (just the pod, no pan/tilt setup) and one with the DIY Drones electronics pod and APM2.…"

"Solved the problem.  A friend of mine has the exact same 915 radios which he hasn't used yet.  I connected both his ground and air radios to my laptop and they connected right away.  I then connected his ground radio to my air…"

"Ok, so it looks like I need to get an FTDI cable then."

"1. Connect your radio with FTDI cable to your computer. 2. Choose normal and advanced parameters and save them to your radio. 3. Remove the radio from FTDI cable. 4. Now repeat the exact same procedure to the other radio with exatly the same…"

"I recently ran into a similar problem but I think my symptoms were a little different from what has been described here. I use a laptop for telemetry, but the battery isn't what it used to be so I bought a UPS for the field. Being the thorough…"

"I still can't get the radios to connect.  Here's a screenshot of my com settings and Mission Planner settings.  I don't see the settings for the air radio on…"

"Good deal! Have a look at this post :) http://www.diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/flying-apm2-via-joystick Read what Michael and Andrew said :) Good luck! :) Happy flying-"

"Thanks for all the help! I ended up running the 3dr config tool that was posted earlier. It looks identical to the GCS 3dr setup, but worked out fine for me. if you could let me know what joystick/telemetry/baud rate settings allow for you to have…"

"You need to turn off ECC and Lower the telemetry to 1 Hz in mission planner that will help. You might try different order of powering up the radios? Power the ground radio first? I need to check my radios I'll look for you tomorrow ok it's…"

"yeah, everything was connected up, i was trying to increase the bandwidth to reduce the lag while running on joystick. "

"Was the air module "on" when you did the save? Or was it just the ground module hooked up?"

"Both of them appear to be in the "searching for connection mode" Ground module is flashing just green, air module is flashing both green and red. "

"humm see with the 433's you can swap the ground and air modules. What are the led's saying to you? Describe how each one acts please?"

"900"

"900 or 433 Mhz radios?"

"Hey Monroe, thanks for the post. I saw the previous settings, but i have a feeling that i screwed up the settings, so they won't accept the stock settings. Unless I have the net ID wrong, i already checked the other settings. I will try…"