Hi everyone,
I need some input on my setup. I live in the suburbs of a medium sized city in Germany, so running in EU_868. Node and antenna are mounted in my attic which is the 4th floor, so ~10m height. And as the title says it is a HeltecV3 with this Ziisor antenna. I can get good connections in my area. However for reaching the city center nodes I need to bridge ~9km. I can receive plenty nodes from the city center but I don’t manage to be heard. I specifically for this purpose upgraded from this to the Ziisor and while I do see some reception improvements, they are not that big. And I can see no benefit on the Tx side at all. I expected more and I wonder if I am doing something wrong? I am using this connector, could it be bad? Any other ideas?
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It is my understanding that it’s a total crapshoot with aliexpress antennas. You might be lucky and get a good one, but you might as well get a shitty one.
I mean it is generally hit/miss with AliExpress, but I’ve read that the Ziisor shop is quite reputable, which is why I chose it.
Are you certain it’s actually ziisor? There’s also a “ziisor official store” on aliexpress which is different from the one you bought from (according to the one you link)
…god damn
I don’t know which is selling “authentic” antennas, maybe they both are, but it could be that it’s a “fake” that you have.
