After lots and lots of research, debating between systems, I have purchased rangelink. Why Rangelink?
1) It is only $185 for TX, RX, cables, and antennas.
2) The RCG forum is still active and is getting new posts on it everyday
3) For the most part, Sid is good at fixing your unit if it happens to break
4) This is the most important, the receivers are $80
Ok we all know that EZUHF and TSLRS are honestly the best UHF systems out there, with the greatest price tag, $300-$400. Now honestly, paying that is not that bad, you want to get a good system to control your craft, right? Well think about this; you only buy the transmitter once, but you buy several receivers. You have to look at the cost of receivers, not the transmitter. So when you look at an EZUHF receiver, it is $120! You are almost buying a rangelink set for just one EZUHF receiver! So that was a huge factor in my decision.
The set comes with two cables, the one on the right is for headtracking, so set that one off to the side. The one on the left is the RC cable, which you need.
Take an AUX cable or old headphones (either a mono plug or a stereo plug, the headphones cannot have volume control or that other crap). Peel back the heatshrink and expose the inner wires.
Solder your prefered connector onto the red and black wire on the RC cable.
Then solder the black and blue wires on the RC cabel onto the inner wires of your jack. Now in my case, I needed to solder the black to black, and red to blue, and leave out the white wire. This may vary for certain headphones, so if your jack has different wires, just solder the wires around until it works. You can test if the connections by just plugging the jack into the trainer port on the radio and if the radio turns on, you know your cable is correctly soldered. If it doesnt turn on, just re solder the wires till it does work. Make sure if you do this trial and error testing, dont have the RL TX powered.
Looks good, huh?
Plug the cable into the RC port on the Rangelink TX (the very right port)
Plug in the jack into the trainer port, plug in the battery and bam, you set up your Rangelink
Ask any other questions you may have.
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The furthest Ive went with my spektrum radio is .3 miles. Honestly, since you are just starting out, you will never go 1-2 km, .3 miles seemed like forever for me. It will work, just put torroid rings on everything you can and space everything out A TON. I actually lost signal on my tricopter clear line of sight a couple days ago while fpv with my spektrum and my signal completely cut out 200 feet away.
1) It will work
2)Don't go far
3) Try and upgrade to a uhf system next, it makes fpv so much more enjoyable not having to worry about crashing as much.
4) Don't let me discourage you, just be careful.
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tnx for your response. No worries... I wont be discouraged. I'm just a bit dissapointed in general. One would think that, with all the modern technology at hand, a rc brand should be capable of delivering products which fit the demands of the community to a certain degree. Ok, lol enough sad talking here. Referring to he 1-2 km, do you think it's a spectrum only issue or is it a common 2.4 ghz problem ?
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It seems like the rotational freedom would help keep polarization. But the distance must help?
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