The Mini Immortal T Antenna is now available for TBS Crossfire receivers. These antennas are super tiny and should be great for micro quads such as Tiny whoops and “Toothpicks”. Let’s compare its performance to the Immortal T V2.

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Where to Buy?

Mini Immortal T

• Amazon: https://amzn.to/2OiXTYd – Not available widely yet, will update again where to buy.

Immortal T V2

• RDQ: http://bit.ly/2vJoaZe
• GetFPV: http://bit.ly/2UdSdCp

What’s Special?

So how tiny the Mini Immortal T is compared to the full size Immortal T V2? Here are the measurements.

Immortal T V2

• Dimension 145mm tip to tip, 90mm long
• Weight 3.5g

Mini Immortal T

• Dimension 55mm tip to tip, 45mm long
• Weight 0.9g

As you can see even both antennas use U.FL connector, the Mini Immortal is significantly lighter and smaller.

Thanks to the compact form factor, it’s great for micro quad. Here I am installing the Crossfire Nano Receiver and Mini Immortal Antenna in the Skystar Talon.

Performance Testing

As I don’t have the equipment to test these antennas scientifically, I sent them to my friend “Krohsis” from IntoFPV.

To sum it up, based on Krohsis’s test, both antennas should work on both 868MHz and 915MHz (CE / FCC frequencies), but the frequency tuning of these antennas are completely different.

The Immortal T V2 would work better at 915MHz than 868MHz, and for the Mini Immortal T, it would work better at 868MHz than 915MHz.

Here is his original reply and findings if you want to know the detail:

Testing Methodology

Below are the results of the testing I did for you. I tested both antennas at 915MHz and 868MHz, the results were fairly interesting.

Before I list the results of the testing, I wanted to cover some methodology. I tested the antennas both inside my shop and outside away from any buildings, etc. Neither location changed the readings of the antennas.

Some antennas do get different readings when you change their operating environment, but not with these two antennas. Also, some antennas change their readings if you touch the feed-line. The mini immortal antenna was like that. I could change the readings by touching the feed-line with just my fingertip and if I squeezed the feed-line it would change more. Touching the feed-line on the big antenna there was no change. Obviously touching the u.fl or moving the antenna so the u.fl moved on the analyzer would change readings so I was cautious not to do that.

Reading Results

I’m unsure if you know how to read the analyzer so I will explain it. There are two pages you can select for each reading. The main page is all numbers and page two is a graph.

On the main page at the top is the selected frequency. This is the frequency that the measurements are based on. The critical numbers below the frequency for this test are in purple which is VSWR, and the yellow which is Signal to Noise ratio (SNR). The other measurements are resistance, impedance, reactance, etc., not important for this test.

On page two, the graph page, there is a small yellow diamond. That is where the selected frequency is located on the graph and the red line is where VSWR is for a particular frequency. The scale for the graph is set by me, for this test I set it from a low of 814mhz to a high of 1015mhz, making each vertical blue line segment on the grid about 28mhz per. The purpose of the graph is to see how the readings on the main page line up with each other for a given frequency. For example, sometimes VSWR will be lower at a different frequency than the desired one. The graph allows for seeing where the readings on the main page are in relation to each other, and where the antenna resonate point is located.

Testing Immortal V2

As you will see below, the larger Immortal T V2 antenna is very serviceable from 868mhz through 915mhz and ended up resonating at 922mhz.

Measurements at the resonance frequency:

I don’t know if the big antenna is sold as a 915mhz antenna or an 868mhz antenna. I know the V1 of the Immortal T is tuned around 900mhz, with the thought being in the middle of the two frequency standards it should work fine on both frequencies. But this V2 version of the Immortal T seems more suited to 915mhz as it resonates at 922mhz.

But as you can see it would work on either 868mhz or 915mhz, just better on 915mhz, with better VSWR and SNR readings, with the best readings and resonate point at 922mhz. That is quite distance from 868mhz.

Measurements at 868MHz:

Measurements at 915MHz:

Testing Mini Immortal T

The small antenna is different. Here are the measurement at the resonance frequency:

As a 915mhz antenna its performance would be very reduced over 868mhz. I believe this antenna was tuned specifically for 868mhz.

For what this little antenna is it really is doing a pretty darn good job. VSWR is a little elevated, but not so bad as to cause any real problems.

And the SNR is pretty darn good all things considered. It would be interesting to field test it to see what kind of range is really possible even though it was never intended to be a long range antenna. I think it would perform really well, at least the testing seems to indicate that.

Measurements at 868MHz:

Measurements at 915MHz:

That’s it! Any question please let me know in the comments.

Happy flying.