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Male


About Me:

Electronic designer, PC builder/tweaker. RC Heli's, FPV, Ultra Low Light camera's Video RF links


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Have 450, 500 & 600 T-Rex's. Video & RF gear for above etc


Hometown:

Stevenage


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Steve Croft replied to Enrique Avalle's discussion Beware of 3DR CloverLeaf Antennas in Arducopter Y6 Owners
"A point worth noting here, especially when trying CloverLeaf Antennas at the RX end, 'Some' RX's have an active DC voltage feed to the Antenna, ie: recent RX's based on an Airwave modules will probably have this voltage feed, the DC voltage is…"
Jun 10, 2014
Steve Croft replied to Enrique Avalle's discussion Beware of 3DR CloverLeaf Antennas in Arducopter Y6 Owners
"I think the 3DR Cloverleaf's look dodgy in other ways..
Plus look identical to the Chinese ones I bought, the tuning of which was not great..
A quick glance at 'Their' specs reveals much stupidity and BS? even the Gains are written differently?? dBi…"
May 2, 2014
Steve Croft commented on moglos's blog post Anatomy of a 301 km Flight
"Very impressive endurance flight..Like Ted above said, how did you stop yourself going nuts for 7 hrs 8 mins?Did you go away for breaks? trusting the autopilot, and come back later?
Steve"
May 2, 2014
Steve Croft replied to Brett Glossop's discussion Can anyone suggest a good path for 5.8GHz tx/rx for UAV telemetry?
"I've rigged up a 5.8GHz downlink for a UAV company, using Airwave TX/RX's. The TX was only 25mW, a night test resulted in 500 metres range with clear video, a small pcb 7db patch was used on the RX.

Checkout Iftron…"
Jul 12, 2010