aircraft networking

[Martin]

There's someone here in the SF Bay area who use flies a drone for a HF
vertical antenna.  He is somehow rectifying the RF to power the drone.
I'm trying to track down more information.  If anyone has an idea how it's
done I'd love to know.

Alex - does your drone talk on 2.4 GHz also?  Have you looked into AREDN
and Ubuiquiti router hardware.  It allows you to operate on WiFi channel -
2 (ham band) which avoids a lot of interference.

Martin W6MRR



On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Terry McCarty - WA5NTI <3t3 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Pete -
>
> How much voltage and current does a drone require to maintain a 'steady
> state' altitude of 300 ft ?
>
> I'm thinking of strapping a Linksys WRT54G router's circuit board under a
> drone and feeding power up to it via a 200' or 300' CAT5 cable.
>
> Could the drone draw its power off of the unused wires in a Cat5 cable and
> provide a stable/stationary router platform/node up about 300' in the air ?
>
> --
>      Terry McCarty
>     3t3 at comcast.net
>    President - AMRAD
>         wa5nti
>
>
>
> kf4hcw wrote:
>
> On 07/24/2016 12:19 PM, Alex Fraser wrote:
>
> At a HSMM meeting a couple of months ago I batted around the idea of a
> router in a drone.  So far the idea hasn't got off the ground, but I'm
> hopeful.
>
>
> The problem is endurance.
>
> _M
>
>
> --
> kf4hcw
> Pete McNeillifeatwarp9.com/kf4hcw
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