TBS Diamond Antenna

The TBS Diamond antenna addresses a number of concerns found with other antennas. Wear & tear and not being directional have been the source of some range issues with long range FPV pilots and miniquad pilots. The TBS Diamond antenna was designed to solve these issues, in colaboration with IBCrazy the designed of the TBS Diamond Antenna was an antenna to be as durable as possible.

The design of the TBS Diamond antenna allows for a slight bias to give you more range when flying in front of you, however, it will still maintain a solid link when flying behind you too. The Diamond antenna uses the ground you are standing on to reflect and therefore boost your signal out beyond what traditional antennas can manage. 

Specifications:

• Connector: SMA Male

• Weight: 20.6g

• Size: 135 x 120 mm

• Gain: 2.88dB

• Frequency: 850 – 950MHz

• Suggested for: TBS Crossfire TX or TBS Crossfire Micro TX

 

The story behind how the TBS Diamond Antenna came to be:

A few pilots were experiencing drop-outs at what seemed to be random times. I investigated 4 cases an found that all the dropouts were happening all at the same relative azimuth. it was apparent that conductive ground was causing a null between the 0-5 and 15-20 degree azimuth. This wasn’t a Crossfire problem at all! I was a problem with the ground they were standing on!

To fix this, I designed an antenna that not only would resist the effect of ground, but would track along the ground for low altitude flying. To do this a balanced closed loop structure was needed. The result was the TBS Diamond antenna.”

— Alex “IBCrazy” Greve, Dec 9th, 2017