#0.142.8 > 0.152.10 Medium Antenna Bug Coverage.

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ebon oriole
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that one may be because the antennae's cant see each other.

ebon oriole
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i understand your point, but the coverage circles dont touch the other antennae meaning your signal isnt going to the other antennae from the one your next to. this is notable in RC cars where the relay stations arent set up properly in real life

ebon oriole
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the circles intersect yes, but not to the point of collecting from the broadcasting antennae. i have a feeling you dont understand how relay circuits work

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try putting an antennae where the circles overlap and see if the game has relay circuits. if not the problem may also include that

small path
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To make communicate between them two antennas: the position (of both) must be inside the other antenna circle.
It is useless if you make the two circles overlaps a bit, you must put a third one between them.
No antenna range bug, just lack of knowledge.😉

small path
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Man if there is a bug about antennas it isn't in their software...
The logic is very simple, think about the circle as the area in which other antennas can "hear" the antenna voice if they are inside that

small path
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In the green area you can use controller, in the red circle NOT. (the dots are antennas)
last try, if you don't understand stay with your ideas.

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cedar lion
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0.142.8 > ¿0.152.7? Medium Antenna Bug Coverage.

cedar lion
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0.142.8 > 0.152.7 Medium Antenna Bug Coverage.

cedar lion
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0.142.8 > 0.152.10 Medium Antenna Bug Coverage.

thick kraken
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the range of the large antenna is 275m from the antenna. you have you reestablish a connection to the rover back at the start of the antenna chain(the HQ) and repeat this every time for each new antenna in the network that is added on. @cedar lion

barren topaz
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A range of 275 for the large antenna is just plane silly. It should be more like 5-10km

thick kraken
barren topaz
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oh, sorry, misunderstood what you said. 2km still seems much too short

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wish we knew what their intent for the antennas was

thick kraken
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user error, antenna must be placed with the 275m range, not on the edge of that range

barren topaz
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within the 275m range of the base?

thick kraken
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each big antenna

barren topaz
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wait, what? So I have one big antenna and it has a range radius of 275m only so the next antenna must be less than 275m away?

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What's the range of the medium and small antennas?

thick kraken
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first find the range that your HQ has, place an antenna 1 rover length back from that and 270m from the center of each tower placed in a row. leave than 270m range and you will have to get your rover

barren topaz
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If the range is the same for all then that should be a bug. A 275 range for any of them is silly. I'd expect the small to have at least a 1km range, with the large more like 5-8km.

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I've never remote controlled a vehicle yet.

thick kraken
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or drive your rover til cuts out and place a tower behind it. that is what i did @cedar lion

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cedar lion
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I've done enough tests and tried different methods, it doesn't work. It's a bug. 😔

thick kraken
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i used the big antenna

cedar lion
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"I stop following my report. Thank you all for your help."

thick kraken
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after looking at your video, your antennas are too far apart. the range shown on the map is not accurate

topaz crescent
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just spend a few hours playing with antennas so here is what i found:
1: HQ antenna got a range of about 135m, small antenna got 270m, medium got about 380m (they're all estimates from when i lost signal but there seem to be a signal strength factor in there too, sometimes i could drive more than 380m on medium coverage, or it takes a moment for the signal to update and you can drive until it gets refreshed)
2: big antenna range is bugged, i'll check tomorrow what it is
3: visual coverage on the radar doesn't match range, it shows some extra coverage so don't use that
4: remote controller range is 100m when not using antennas (without the tech to upgrade its range)

@cedar lion think of it this way: each antenna is a player and the signal is a tennis ball, the coverage is how far each player can send it
if player A sends it and player B isn't within coverage range, player B won't be able to catch it to pass it along since the ball won't reach him
you got to put antennas within range of the previous antenna, just having coverages cross won't do anything

barren topaz
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I would think that the next tower has to be inside the range of the first, and so on. Overlapping EM fields don't transfer data between them. One field has to intersect with a reciever that then retransmits.

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Of course in reality the field doesn't simply end at some range...inverse square law. If the receiver were sensitive enough it would pick up the signal farther away, but there is always an optimal range beyond which you might have increased error rates.

topaz crescent
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@cedar lion rover is 950m away and i'm still controlling it, relay works fine
in my tennis analogy, if you want the signal to go beyond player B, he has to catch the ball to pass it along
the first antenna coverage has to include the second antenna, just having their coverage overlap does nothing (try to understand how wifi repeater works irl, same idea)

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as for big antenna range, it seem to be around 440m (sometimes i lost signal at 445m, sometimes at 460m)

barren topaz
topaz crescent
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if 2 people can yell and be heard for 100 meters, if you put them 150m apart they won't hear the scream to repeat it even though their 100m range will overlap
can't explain it better 😛

small path
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yep, all the antennas can be combined together but you should use always big antennas if you can, since they can give you a bigger coverage and are also more cost convenient