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Hi,


I am new to this hobby, i am facing vtx range issue that took me weeks with no luck,


When i arm the quad the video is so clear and has no noise or distortion at all, but when i fly at about 50m~ open range i start losing signal very quickly, it gets much lower 15m~ when there are obstacles such as trees or buildings, i saw videos of other people using the same setup with video ranges above 1000m, i don't know what i am doing wrong at this point.


Here is everything i tried:

1- Disabling Pit mode.

2- setting vtx power to max (400mw).

3- moving power cables away from the vtx transmitter antenna.

4- buying new matching antennas for both the transmitter and reciever (this helped improving the range a tiny bit but the problem is still there).

5- Frequencies are perfectly matched.

6- vtx ground wire soldered directly to the battery.

7- Tried so many different antenna configurations.

8- Pretty sure Vtx settings in betaflight are correct.


Unfortunately all of this didn't solve the problem,

Here is my FPV drone setup:

Frame: TBS Source one V5

Motors: Velox 2207 V3 1750kV

ESC and Flight Controller: SpeedyBee F405 V3

Camera: Foxeer Razer mini

VTX transmitter: Happymodel OVX300

Goggles: Eachine EV800DM

Transmitter: FlySky FS-A8S

Reciever: FlySky FS-I6X

VTX and goggles antennas: RushFPV Cherry2 LHCP


Is there a chance that the VTX transmitter itself is malfunctioning?


Any help would be appreciated.