Herelink Fpv experience

@Banme_RC Haha, it is imposible as I said at that range bitrate was about 1000 kbps, I dont know at this level can be called HD?

I am confused by ur this statement. You said “impossible”, I don’t understand. What was the video quality at the far end of the range, that is after about 10km to 17km? at 1000kbs there was lag in HD link? or the HD link became non-HD link :sweat_smile:? or there was noise in the video (that i doubt would occur in digital video system)

Also plz share your antenna placement/position. I hope u used stock antennas?

Plz reply both questions
Thanks

:thinking: ??

Haha. You are researching the infos well.
How I can describe the image quanlity of herelink! Let watch my above picture again, I took it at 12,5 km range and in fact I can see more clearly than that picture.
As you know when further you fly, the signal decreases, but at the end of trip, I see that the bitrate was about 1000 kbps and i still see quite clearly. But it is not HD quanlity at that range, or I maybe dont understand what HD standard is?
And at the fargest of range, video streaming was still STABLE, NO LAG! very nice!
Antennas is almost stock like my way of thinking, lol
Will show antennas later!

“Antennas is almost stock like my way of thinking”

Almost stock??? :sweat_smile:

As I promise! Here is how I place my antennas on the plane! One is far 30 cm from all electronic components. Air unit is placed outside for cooling, it is just under 40 degree C when in the air.

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haha after looking at the antennas, now i understood what do u meant by “Almost stock” hahaha

So u cut the antenna, and still got 17km range with bit rate > 1000kbps, great :ok_hand: :+1:

thanks for the pictures !
by the way, did you control the ground noise ( new flight place) ?

Look awsome, wish 20km in the future test. haha

No data to compare!

If has a sponsorship, I’ll fly 30 km away with some antenna mod!

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@philip
I have few questions:
1- The HereLink user has choice to select between FCC and CE mode? Or is it automatically selected based on the built-in gps which automatically selects either FCC or CE based on the rules for that particular country/Location?
2-what is the RF power of both the airunit and the ground unit in milliwatta or in dBm?

yes you can and output in FCC is 28mw

The Wiki shows you how to select FCC or CE with all of the HereLink setup info and direction.

https://docs.cubepilot.org/user-guides/

And I know I am not Philip but this is the answers for you.

Than you MadRC

@MadRC I can’t find transmission power of 28mW in the wiki link you sent. From where u got that number?

28mW is a bit too low for 20km, isn’t it?

It’s from Philip as this has already been asked before for a commercial client I have, I don’t just make this stuff up you know .

If you want precise it’s between 28.db and 28.28db depending on the channel.

Or 656mw and 672mw.

It’s the maximum legal output the system can achieve and that’s the same number pretty much all the digital systems are at as it’s for fcc compliance. It’s range is achieved via its transmission method and not its power. Every system will have to be around the same 650mw number because that’s what’s law.

@MadRC I think you mixed up FCC and CE. CE regulations are stricter than FCC regulations.I believe that 28 mW would be for CE regulations.

@White_Noor You can usually find the FCC certificate online by googling it. It will tell you the emitting power of the device. https://fccid.io/2ARLU-HA06071

28mw would be for FCC with the specific kind of radio encoding used. While you can go to 1w or 30dmb in FCC on 2.4ghz that’s a basics signal and not a video stream.

For CE it would be between 16 and 20dbm due to much tighter requirements around LBT and the FHSS requirements.

For instance pretty much all the digital Fpv systems have the same outputs as they are limited in the same way. This includes DJI Ocusync and Lightbridge.

there is something wrong here!

Sorry confused? Just spotted I wrote mw twice in my first post above but corrected that now to dbm

@MadRC So in a nutshell you mean that the RF power output is always constant, that is, within about 650 to 672mW, but the transmission distance is locked by the software (or as u said “by transmission method”) which limits the vehicle to 12km in CE mode and limits the drone to 20km in FCC mode?