ORIGINAL: tevans55
ORIGINAL: abufletcher
I would imagine that what matters are the planes of the antennas relative to the transmitter on the ground.
Yes, you are absolutely correct. From what I had read, my understanding was that the purpose of 2 antennae were so that they can be placed on different planes and the tests they ran showed the signal was more secure in this scenario. I don't even remember if it was a Futaba report. I will continue to see if I can find this report or whatever it was I read.
Hang in there HPA this is going to be riveting!!!!
That's all well and good.....however, I seldom fly straight and level, so my antennas are always changing position relative to the transmitter.
What it all boils down to is the fact that there are two antennas and they should be spaced as far from each other as possible. The reason for two antennas in the first place is because the 2.4 wave length is very short (look at your own receiver) and to prohibit signal blocking from the model itself (engine, batteries, cowls etc.) a redundant antenna system was devised.
If antenna placement were as critical as some of us think, there would be a continuing problem with signal loss and subsequent crash after crash after crash. And that is just not happening!
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!