5$ FPV Helical Antennas | 5.8ghz Long Range | Cheap DIY Antennas

Inspired by GiantAntCowboy. As stated in the video, I was not able to test the full range of the antennas with my current setup. If you have any questions, leave them down below!
Thanks for watching,
The Orange Baron

[@GiantAntCowboy]

Excellent the Pasta Sauce Helical! Thanks for the shoutout, Cheers bud.

[@tomazas2]

Where can you find that type of hard cable sma male to sma male? Great idea to make two antenna cables too!

[@RandoManFPV]

So the yellow part that holds the coil is just structural to protect the coil right? Does it interfere with the coils signal at all? Like even the tiniest most negligible amount?

[@danforsyth4608]

Does the plastic parts of this device serve a porpoise or can i make it give me some better signal by doing everything you did except the 3d printed stuff like use stuff i have laying around or does the 3d parts have to be there to get anything all?😅

[@vitotonello261]

how did you choose the general shape of the helical antenna? I'm not quite sure which online calc does the math right...

[@theorangebaron1595]

I just used some 3d printed formers from thingiverse. The designer already calculated the correct helical spacing for the 5.8 frequency.

[@vitotonello261]

@@theorangebaron1595 thanks :)

[@Gigadrain-gw2zl]

Make Yagi antenna 📡📶 please ❤

[@sashgorokhov]

Why you did not use wave trap?

[@theorangebaron1595]

I’m not sure what you mean. I understand that only the coil and reflector are needed for this style of antenna

[@m3g4byte]

Impedance is well above 50 ohms without some kind of matching stub or wave trap. Also you’re using a linear antenna on the tx so you’d probably be better off with a yagi instead of a helical. Good to see it working though.

[@RandoManFPV]

​​​@@m3g4byteyou seem to be very knowledgeable on this. I know literally nothing 😅 I'm trying to cheap my way into a ground station for long range fpv. But I've got true rc x2air patches(2 and 2 omnis on dji goggles v2) so maybe trying to build something like this will only result in very minor gains.. like I said I don't know anything.. Oh I just seen this guy is using a rc truck, I'm trying to use a 5inch drone. Oh now he's using a drone too lol 😅

[@m3g4byte]

It will still work good in spite of impedance, next step maybe make a clover leaf on the transmitting side and you will have a great setup!

[@raibuzatto9565]

Share your .stl dudee ❤