Do the KW fairings penalize Omni antennea range for Remote Tech?

[lextacy]

Every now and then my 500km omni antenna cuts out during line of site with KSC during my circularization burn. IT always seems to happen when I forget to bust open the fairings. Anyone else having this issue?

[Mecripp]

You could try and run a cfg to add it to the fairing base like

@PART[KW1mExpandedFairingBase]
{
	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleRTAntenna
		IsRTActive = true
                OmniRange = 500000
		EnergyCost = 0.01

		TRANSMITTER
		{
			PacketInterval = 0.3
			PacketSize = 2
			PacketResourceCost = 15.0
		}
	}

	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleSPUPassive
	}
}

@PART[KW2mExpandedFairingBase]
{
	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleRTAntenna
		IsRTActive = true
                OmniRange = 500000
		EnergyCost = 0.01

		TRANSMITTER
		{
			PacketInterval = 0.3
			PacketSize = 2
			PacketResourceCost = 15.0
		}
	}

	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleSPUPassive
	}
}

@PART[KW3mExpandedFairingBase]
{
	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleRTAntenna
		IsRTActive = true
                OmniRange = 500000
		EnergyCost = 0.01

		TRANSMITTER
		{
			PacketInterval = 0.3
			PacketSize = 2
			PacketResourceCost = 15.0
		}
	}

	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleSPUPassive
	}
}

@PART[KW1mFairingBase]
{
	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleRTAntenna
		IsRTActive = true
                OmniRange = 500000
		EnergyCost = 0.01

		TRANSMITTER
		{
			PacketInterval = 0.3
			PacketSize = 2
			PacketResourceCost = 15.0
		}
	}

	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleSPUPassive
	}
}

@PART[KW2mFairingBase]
{
	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleRTAntenna
		IsRTActive = true
                OmniRange = 500000
		EnergyCost = 0.01

		TRANSMITTER
		{
			PacketInterval = 0.3
			PacketSize = 2
			PacketResourceCost = 15.0
		}
	}

	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleSPUPassive
	}
}

@PART[KW3mFairingBase]
{
	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleRTAntenna
		IsRTActive = true
                OmniRange = 500000
		EnergyCost = 0.01

		TRANSMITTER
		{
			PacketInterval = 0.3
			PacketSize = 2
			PacketResourceCost = 15.0
		}
	}

	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleSPUPassive
	}
}

@PART[KW5mExpandedFairingBase]
{
	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleRTAntenna
		IsRTActive = true
                OmniRange = 500000
		EnergyCost = 0.01

		TRANSMITTER
		{
			PacketInterval = 0.3
			PacketSize = 2
			PacketResourceCost = 15.0
		}
	}

	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleSPUPassive
	}
}

@PART[KW5mFairingBase]
{
	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleRTAntenna
		IsRTActive = true
                OmniRange = 500000
		EnergyCost = 0.01

		TRANSMITTER
		{
			PacketInterval = 0.3
			PacketSize = 2
			PacketResourceCost = 15.0
		}
	}

	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleSPUPassive
	}
}

EDIT - Whoops looks like, I missed the 5m fairings

EDIT- There fixed

Edited December 1, 2014 by Mecripp2

[Bobe]

I don't imagine they should, although I always jettison fairings at about 60km.

Is this the first satellite you're trying to put in orbit? How far downrange is the circularization burn?

[somnambulist]

The KW fairings are radio transparent. No part blocks LOS for RemoteTech connections. Something else is probably going on -- are you sure you're within 500 KM of KSC and have LOS?

[Taki117]

The fairings themselves do not block signal, however planet curvature does. If you are more than 500km downrange of the launch site, or over the horizon (no LoS) you won't have a connection. What you can do is before losing connection set the flight computer (the calculator next to the time delay/connection box) to point you at your circularization heading and execute the node. This must be done before connection is lost.

[Hodo]

And most importantly remember your altitude also affects the range. So if you are 100km up and 400km away then you are further then 400km away from the target station. This is why I launch all my sats with a SSTO cargo craft to a Geosync orbit alt first then place the others in a different orbit using those as relays.

[Bobe]

What you can do is before losing connection set the flight computer (the calculator next to the time delay/connection box) to point you at your circularization heading and execute the node. This must be done before connection is lost.

I didn't know that's how the flight computer worked. I thought it was just similar to MechJeb. That could've saved me the hassle of performing an extremely eccentric LKO insertion.