No connection on mountain hike?

[ghulse]

Weird question. I hiked today out (in the Blue Ridge mountains) with my drone in my backpack, thinking I could get some amazing footage from the top. At the lookout, I took it out of the knapsack and attempted to connect it. I use an iPhone connected to the Anafi controller with USB cord. Mostly I could not get a connection with the drone at at all. Or if I did it lasted only for a short time, the controls were unresponsive. Good thing I did not fly the drone away, or I would not have been able to bring it back. This has never happened before. When I got back home, I tested it out and everything worked fine. What is going on here? My elevation on the mountain was about 3200 ft. The trailhead is 2200.

 

[Dirk_ANAFI]

Here in Europe directional radio is often located on higher mountain tops or a point-to-point radio link leads over those regions and disturbs the Wifi connection.
ONE possible explanation ....

 

[ghulse]

It must be something like that. Maybe there was WiFi interference coming from a fish hatchery which very near the trailhead and almost directly below the rocky outcrop where I was trying to launch the drone. I recall that during a brief connection with the drone, I was trying to move the camera and and it was really jerky and sporadic. Strange though that the Wifi interference would be so intense.

 

[Dirk_ANAFI]

I have a Wifi scanner app on my smartphone. I'm often surprised about the Wifi pollution in my flight area. Sometimes the change of the Wifi channel improves the situation.

 

[Wezsh0T]

This happened to me when I went on a mountain hike as well. I just kept trying and finally got a connection after about 20 minutes of trying. Completely closing and restarting the FF6 App is what ultimately seems to have established the connection. I had also tried to manually enter the wifi code. I got some great footage of a waterfall, but then lost connection to the Anafi about 350ft up. Luckily, I had only gone straight up. After reviewing the footage, the Anafi was still responsive to my commands, but I just couldn't see the video feed. I could have just brought it down with down stick, but I ended up using RTH, which also worked.