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In particular, people used to plain FSK RC protocols like Spektrum DSM, FrSky D8, Futaba FASST, and similar which tend to failsafe around <1km even with 100mW of power believed that a 2.4GHz link could never do 100km regardless of interference or noise issues.

Also notably, LoRa does tremendously well with real-world noise and interference. Of course any receiver is susceptible to frontend overload, but in "normal" situations I never worry about flying 2.4GHz even in crowded cities, and have never had a failsafe even in some ridiculous situations. As someone above mentions, LTE on the 800MHz band with 900MHz control links are much more of a problem - I've had a failsafe for that exact reason at <200m total distance from takeoff.



Damn, that's quite impressive. Thank you for clarifying!




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