I was sent the flex antennas as well, and I’ve been testing them. Not sure if we’re allowed to publicly talk about them or not.
I can say that based on the video of the prototype flex antenna that Yarbo showed, I think it’s a mistake to make the winter high mount flexible, while leaving the top half (the actual antenna) the exact same rigid part we have now
Seems to me it would be better to have the antenna be as low as possible to avoid branches, but ALSO be flexible at the same time.
I recommended that the antenna be beefier automotive grade thick plastic. The helical design ensures that no matter what angle the rover is in, that it can get a good signal. The high mount is required for snow. I do think they need a flexible solution for the low mount. Perhaps they are already working on one.
I don’t think they can flex the antenna itself due to the circuitry and antenna makeup itself since it’s like a hair curler (picture those old plastic ones that girls would roll their hair up into and leave it sit. The current designs plastic for the antennas is just a little too thin IMHO.
The problem is, Yarbo (company) has been telling us to use only the small summer antennas to avoid breakage. Since those are rigid and not changing as a part of the overall antenna redesign, we would need to put on the flexible extension for breakage protection. But that is counterintuitive to me because now the antenna is twice as tall as before, so it’s more likely to encounter branches.
I don’t think this is their solution for summer. They redesigned the low mounts so that there is a barrel connector embedded into the mount itself. If the antenna hit something it would shear the barrel off before anything else broke, including the cable inside the core as the previous mount would allow since the cable was the connection point and that is what often broke. So, to me, they have addressed the low RTK mount for now, but I recently saw a user modification that made a flexible low mount. It was really good. I’d love to see something like that incorporated as well as the new mount.
So you think the flexible antenna assemblies we are currently testing are NOT intended for summer use?
I mean… no reason you can’t use the taller mounts in summer.
I think you totally could, but no the high mounts are absolutely meant for winter. Winter is coming. Jon Snow and Ned Stark told me so.
looks like it needs a roll cage, haven’t had mine do that, just back up on trees about 5 inches or so.
You’re doing it wrong. 
OOOOHHHHHHH yellow side up…. I get it. 
Ouch! That looks really painful. 
Only if you turn the blades on and trip
Doesn’t mow worth a darn in that orientation. 
WHERE CAN I GET THIS FLEXIBLE ONES?
I have a 2ha Apple Farm and have every week to watch out for deep hanging Branches,
The Flexible Adapter to the Antennas would be the perfect solution for me.
Did he try to climb up the stairs and mow the leafes?
I think they are still in the testing phase.
Yarbo had mowed that area about 1/2 dozen times, so I had (apparently) too much confidence in Yarbo. For some reason this time Yarbo thought it would be fun to climb the stairs on the play set.
My wife said, “what’s Yarbo doing”? And I said “mowing”. She said “Yarbo is on his back.”
I chuckled…. thought she was joking. 
Definitely on his back….
They are working on the details now per Fridays live stream. You could reach out to support and see if they can give you any more specifics.
Well. Last couple of days I have played around with the TPU 95A type elastic filament and my 3D printer. On Printables page there is the drawing off upgraded Yarbo high mount. Im currently in the process of printing 3’rd model. In my experience I just need to find correct infill % to be able to print a version what can withstand 90 degree bends\folds. The idea is that the high mount should be always returning to its original shape 100% of the times. I have now had experiments with using 15% infill and 75% infill. First was way too soft and the second one was a bit too strong to flex. Now I’m printing ones with 30% infill.
Playing around with TPU filament takes however lots of time as I had to slow down the printing speed a lot compared to normal printing. Just to get the quality up. High speeds and TPU are not friends. It takes almost 11 hours to print only 2 high mounts. TPU has lots of potential to be viable material to fix the antenna braking problem on Yarbo. At least as long as Yarbo will introduce some of their own products to fix this design shortcoming.
