Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I tried to do some better longer range and obstruction tests with the GT but haven't had much luck so here's a test from the living room like I've done with other systems. It's not so much that everyone sucks but I always manage to park some place where some employee or resident just happens upon seeing what I'm doing. Sometimes I'll find a spot where it's hard for people to figure out who's driving but I have to sneakily bring it back to me eventually somehow. The more secluded the hiding spot the more immediate obstruction there is.
The receiver is just mounted on one of those phone holders about 5ft off the ground pointed in a random direction. If you have a sunroof then you can also have it poking out of the car and feeding into a screen for better range etc.
When I first tried this test all stock it didn't go so well. I started dropping a lot of signal the second I went into the drain pipe. I feel like I could have gone all the way in now if it wasn't flooded. It's not so much the VTX antennas but the ones I put on the receiver, which are two double AXII 2's and an iFlight Crystal HD patch set. The signal doesn't really bounce around like it does with the DJI. It either stays at 25Mbps, or drops off to 14Mbps, then eventually to 7Mbps where from there it might fluctuate down to 1-2Mbps before losing video completely.
The car I'm using kind of sucks and I didn't want to get it stuck but it did about as well as the DJI the places I went. DJI can still go further but I can't easily just view it from a big screen like I can the Walksnail. I first had 800mW 1.3G setup to do this where I could just easily get audio and video from the living room onto a TV. It just didn't work like I wanted and noticed 2.5W 5.8G analog performed about the same. With the Walksnail I still get clear audio using the 1.3G alongside it, but I get much better video the whole time from the Avatar GT. I would flat out just do this with DJI alone but it still requires some app where just a screen won't work.
I tried to do some better longer range and obstruction tests with the GT but haven't had much luck so here's a test from the living room like I've done with other systems. It's not so much that everyone sucks but I always manage to park some place where some employee or resident just happens upon seeing what I'm doing. Sometimes I'll find a spot where it's hard for people to figure out who's driving but I have to sneakily bring it back to me eventually somehow. The more secluded the hiding spot the more immediate obstruction there is.
The receiver is just mounted on one of those phone holders about 5ft off the ground pointed in a random direction. If you have a sunroof then you can also have it poking out of the car and feeding into a screen for better range etc.
When I first tried this test all stock it didn't go so well. I started dropping a lot of signal the second I went into the drain pipe. I feel like I could have gone all the way in now if it wasn't flooded. It's not so much the VTX antennas but the ones I put on the receiver, which are two double AXII 2's and an iFlight Crystal HD patch set. The signal doesn't really bounce around like it does with the DJI. It either stays at 25Mbps, or drops off to 14Mbps, then eventually to 7Mbps where from there it might fluctuate down to 1-2Mbps before losing video completely.
The car I'm using kind of sucks and I didn't want to get it stuck but it did about as well as the DJI the places I went. DJI can still go further but I can't easily just view it from a big screen like I can the Walksnail. I first had 800mW 1.3G setup to do this where I could just easily get audio and video from the living room onto a TV. It just didn't work like I wanted and noticed 2.5W 5.8G analog performed about the same. With the Walksnail I still get clear audio using the 1.3G alongside it, but I get much better video the whole time from the Avatar GT. I would flat out just do this with DJI alone but it still requires some app where just a screen won't work.
