Did you hear about the 2 antennas that got married? The service was pretty dull but the reception was excellent.

Amazing!! Would love to see more antenna tests and consistency between the same antennas!

You always have great timing, Ive just been looking for new antennas.

Your so good! Cracked me up seeing that uncovered clover leaf. That's all I had to start and one crash the elements bent and it was over. Great content as always!

I took a wander around the labs at work (RF supplies) an found out of ~a dozen signal analyzers that only 1 would go to 6GHz. And that guy would not let me touch it. Its really hard to get the right equipment to check this stuff. Great job on the testing.

Cracking video sir . I wish there were more like it out there . Im still using the original TBS Triumphs on quads and wings but wanting to try some of the new antennas and more information like this would make my changover much less expensive and time consuming . I have always flown on R1 which is very low down and as there are quite a few in our group now I cant really change without messing up how we fly together . Time to go trawling tinternet to see if theres anything similar showing where the Triumph performs best as a baseline . I really enjoyed that , very informative .

Good to see someone doing this. But VSWR doesn't tell you anything about the performance of the antenna. It just tells you the transmitter sees it as a matched load. A dummy load will outperform all those antennas if you go by this measurement. You need to measure resonance, reactance and field strength.

So nice to see actual data

Thank you for all the test results! They were very helpful! Finding the right antenna can be very tricky with so many options out there!

Unfortunately, the VSWR does not say if an antenna is working okay (radiation/gain) but it tells whether the impedance is 50 ohms. If you measure a dummy load, it gives a perfect VSWR but there is no radiation.

In Canada we say "A handful". Am not sure about "Fistful" you may attract wrong viewers. Great informational video, will surely reference it for my next purchase.

Thanks for the video, i recently bought a nano vna fairly cheap and its a great way to do your own antenna swr checks. Maybe a you could do a video in the future. 😊

Fantastic video this, would love the gear to measure this my self as a gear head. Really interesting to see the differences.

Great video with some really useful info! I'd like to see you do another round of testing just like this but this time use fresh out of the box antennas from the major sellers e.g. foxeer, lumenier, etc

Great video, as usual, thanks. Would have loved to see the AeroPOD tested as well.

Another great video, please keep them coming. Take care and stay safe, Joe

lot of work I guess to get this explained so well ... thanks a lot

If you are buying pagoda antenna, make sure it's with plastic braces - then the top and bottom pcbs are aligned and more or less in tune. Worth to mention, that the smaller antenna is - the more vswr depends on the suroundings. You can ruin your vswr and radiation patern by placing your antenna near battery, metal objects, cables, other antennas, etc. Would be actualy interesting to see differences between stub antenna performance on the bench vs on the drone.

Pretty interesting results, Lee! Thanks a lot! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Very surprising that the sensitivity is good for almost all antennas but the manufacturers don't seem to have good control over the tune.

Great video but Sad to see so many off the shelf antennas are designed without these basic tests to ensure maximum signal strength/performance.

Very enlightening, thanks Lee

They should make the test to know if a RHCP antenna, catch signal from a emitting LHCP antenna. So important as the SWR.

Speaking from the amateur radio community, we strive to get a SWR below 1:5 ( doesn’t always happen) But I have been horrified a few years ago by various flattened 5.8Ghz antennas from Banggood that arrive in a flimsy grey unpadded plastic bag ,(a box would be sensible) Definately going over to PCB type antennas like menace RC is the way to go to get a repeatable SWR when making antennas in high numbers.( plus Banggood a packaging doesn’t destroy them!)

Great content as always! It woulda been cool to see the VSWR of a monopole stick as a comparison.

Great test Lee thankyou.stay safe my friend

Thank you for the video. I just ordered new goggles and I know nothing about radio frequency. At the very least, now I know a menace pagoda and patch antenna will serve me well. Cheers, mate!

I have the Foxeer tall on my goggles, rises above my head, great for flying behind me.

very helpful! big thanks!

Really informative - thank you

All I have is old school clover leaf😂😂😂, that explains a lot. Thanks, its buying time.

Great timing, I'm looking for an alternative to the Foxeer Lollipop because it breaks way too easily. I'm getting a great picture quality from them and so are my friends, we're running Shark Byte on TinyTrainers, but the active element is very weak and snaps after too many crashes. After a very light crash on grass yesterday the signal was ruined on mine, gave the antenna a little shake and it was rattling, ripped it open when I got home and found the main lobe had snapped off and was loose! I'm not the only one to experience this, happened to two of my friend's Foxeer Lollipops just recently and I found a video from nearly 2 years ago titled "Foxeer Lollipop Rattling?" with exactly the same issue. So no more Lollipop's for me.

Very interesting measurements! Do you think the vswr measure is the most critical about an antenna? Would be an easier way of measuring than my practical tests with an spectrometer and actually transmitting 1mw over 10m... I used right the 5800 frequ for my tests however, so antennas with a good vswr there sure performed better than others...

Great video - I would love to see more tests like this one. Let's weed through the rubbish, with real test results. I'm also curious about whether you might have just wound up with a "dud" antenna from any of those that were tested....I would love to see the results from a good/bad antenna replicated consistently over multiples of the same antenna .... I am in the process of trying to learn how to clean up my video signal. Thank you for this video!

Bravo.thenks

Interesting results. Not always more expensive means better :)

I've still got some of those metal cloverleaf things. I had no idea they were pants!

If you had, say, one good antenna - would it matter if you used it on your drone or goggles to get the most out of it? - i.e. use it for transmission or reception, or does it not make a difference?

Thanks. I missed the unbranded Mini Pagoda Antenna that BG sells though which is interesting these days with ever smaller quadcopters. I have a suspicion that they're the same design as the Speedy Bee antenna.

Great video thank u.

Nice video - I wonder how a dipole would have compared, just out of curiosity. And how do these VSWR numbers and differences play out in the real world? And at what distances?

Great video Lee. Have you had any testing done on a antenna to see the impact of the 90 or straight through adapter? I notice you did mention the 90 adapter but no data on the amount of impact. Have a great day Jeff

Oh those old clover leaf antennas were awful things out of the box, let alone once you had bent it a couple of times! I like these comparison videos, getting to see some figures on performance. Would it be possible in future to see some of the lighter antennas - those with much thinner coax and the MMCX or UFL connectors. So many of my vtx's these days have the smaller and lighter connectors, and would love to know if they, along with the thinner coax cause any noticeable loss or tuning issues. I ask because other than the aeropod, Menace does not supply any antennas with the smaller and lighter connection options. I was wondering if their was a performance issue that swayed their decision not to stock them. I used to use a lot of menace rc antennas, but have moved away from them because of the lack of MMCX and UFL connected antennas. I know you can get adaptors, but they add weight.

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Good stuff

Farvew..please? I've flown 20mi+ on a farvew pagoda and farvew 7t helical with ~1w output power or ~26-28dbm measured apparent power with the immersion rc rf meter. Need more Maarten Baert goodness :)

OwlRC SWR Meter

What is the best antenna hgrlc hammer vs iflight albatross vs flywoo atomic ?

Thanks for the work :) I'm interested in the foxeer lollipops. I have one of the 'larger' ones on my drones, and two stubbies on my goggles. Would it be reasonable to assume that the stubbies have a similar trace to the one from the video?

Does this mean that if we get some of those antennas, we should set the channel to match that "central frequency"? And in that case would it make sense to take 2 of them - one for quad and one for goggles?

I'm assuming these are receiver antennas do they work the same for the transmitter side of it. And any data on the directional strength of each antenna. I know I'm asking for a lot. So Far you've done a great job.

May want to check out some VAS antennas. All of them are tested and manufactured in the US. And like others have said, vswr is just a very small slice of the pie of antenna performance

Morning Lee do you ever sleep lol

is it possible to mount antena in the way you do not have it beside your head, like mount it on a stick 2 meter away from me and then connect with googles?

The video is great sir , but could you give me advice that what antenna should i use ? Because i use the VRX ROTG01 so it only has one antenna module to only attach one antenna so should use the Pagoda PCB 5dBi antenna ?

very wide frequency range of this measuring tool so it is not comfortable to see the exact difference between low, mid and high 5.8G band

His is there a difference between a vtx or vrx antenna and a goggle antenna?. Im having trouble purchasing since im not sure if they are all universal

Did you do this test on that little (can't for the life of me remember it's name) dome style antenna that sits flush on the aircraft fuselage??

Could you do an update ???????

i feel bad when i look at the AXII antenna which i just recently bought. now i feel like getting a cheapo swr meter just to confirm that its around Band E ch4 (lowest)

Guess the coat hanger wire is getting an upgrade

you must be a mind reader. i was in the market for new antennas

Will you be doing a test for 1.2/1.3

ok, what antenna do you recommend?

Surprising how bad the "old school" antennas are!

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Hello. Please translate all the videos into Arabic because I am a follower of you and subscribers. Thank you very much.