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Thanks for the tip. You mean this one? http://quadcopter.heliguy.com/Extras/Ground-Station/Ground-Station-Peli-Case-Mk2/# I hadn't seen that before, but it is similar to what I'm talking about. The difference being mine would include the flight control Tx. But I wouldn't be building in a...

Ken, I'm building a tracker with a 16dBi patch for my 2.4GHz control, and 7-turn 11dBi helical for the 5.8GHz. Should this work and get me out far or is one or the other going to be a weak point? How come you went to 433 for control instead of trying a patch on the 2.4?

That's what I'm concerned about, the weight. I bet your back hurts with one of these huge rigs after not too long. I'm working on an All-in-One ground station. A custom Tx, video monitor, and Ground Control all built into a Pelican case. Open, and fly. I was thinking it could be hung from...

Herringbone: only on Mikados. Goblins have slants and belts, I believe. The MSH Protos looks really neat. Only a single belt! It's supposed to be freaky quiet.

I had bought the HobbyKing main gear cluster for the HK550GT, sort of just for SnG, but also I was hoping the quality was better, since most of the HK550 parts are better than the 600 parts. Nope. It's worse! It's an absolute joke. I think the run-out is close to 1/4" I'm not even sure the...

I much prefer this one!

Really? What happened? Shook it to bits or what? One other option, better than a Go Pro (man, I'm getting sick of watching Go Pro footage!) but not up to high quality standards... one of the tough P&S's. I've got an Olympus Stylus Tough 6000, the video is crap, but the stills are OK. But...

That's a fantastic result man! Congrats! I'll probably be going down the same path as I'm just not impressed with anything on the market at any price (Other than the Zenmuse, of course). I bought this $20 gimbal from HK, for a "Bumblebee" quad. Just for SnG's. You know, it really doesn't...

Really? I'm using 200mW 5.8GHz and I went 200m with BlueBeam CP's with no problem at all.

Easy to move the tripod. Put it in GPS position hold, move, take back control and resume flying. ;)

Yes, I'm just looking into this now. The problem is the 700 size helical main gear seems to be 112 teeth, resulting in too low of a ration and too high head speed. I need more ratio... Researching now. I need to solve this problem. (That's a great thread, thanks!) Also, no helical cut tail...

Ok, now I understand what you're saying about the angles. I was in Stab mode, which only controls the attitude, but not the thrust/altitude. There is an Alt_Hold mode, which is the same, but also controls altitude. I could have used that but just didn't. I should do some test flying in that...

I dunno... this looks pretty bulky and not very comfortable to wear. My solution to the problem you present is simply to have one of the 7" Foxtech FPV monitors mounted on a lightweight camera tripod. It's at eye-level, and keeps all of that weight off of me, so all I have to hold is the Tx in...

What do you mean about the tail holding? I don't think I did any pitch-pumps in the other video I posted? If you just mean the little waggle in a hover, it's still doing it, I just didn't do much hovering in this video so you probably didn't see it. As for the angles, again not quite...

I was doing so more testing on Arducopter yesterday. I've got the tail holding pretty well, and did some high speed passes. Sorry for the fixed camera angle, I don't have a cameraman. The last pass would have been much better if the camera actually caught the perigee. Also seems 60fps would...

You might consider giving these a shot: http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idproduct=18399 I know some people thing HK servos are crap, but given it's not a flight control.... Failure won't be so bad. I'm actually using the .10 sec version of these on my swash, and .06...

I already opened mine up to add a second power wire so I can dual-power it. I now have a battery lead sticking out, as well as the OEM power lead for AC power. I didn't notice anything obvious like a nice 7805 or something like that, so I'm not sure what they're using for regulation, but it...

It's doubly stupid because it comes with an American plug, but set to PAL. What up with that?

Just got this monitor. Man, what a PITA, rummaging through all my devices to find *something* that outputs PAL so that I can see the menus! What a stupid setup. But otherwise, so far so good. I cut off those velcro strips and glued them around the frame. Now the cover just sticks onto the...

Why did he post that video 2 months ago, but then just 3 weeks ago we get this: http://vimeo.com/46582631 This is quite a bit worse.