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    <font face="Comic Sans MS">RP pulls an amp at 5v, I guess you would
      need more if you had an amp.<br>
      1/2 the weight if you can get a dual band radio to do the cross
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          <div>I think the RP would go through batteries pretty fast.</div>
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          Food for thought - <a
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           I was thinking about doing this with a balloon.  The idea
          would be to use twin-lead j-poles stacked vertically on a
          flightline for isolation.  <br>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Alex
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                  Sans MS">Interesting little gizmo.  I'm concentrating
                  on flying machines these days, so I don't want to get
                  diverted. <br>
                  Looking at it though  I think that little board has
                  potential as a payload.  I have a pretty good
                  imagination, but my programming skills are  almost non
                  existent.<br>
                  A simple ham legal thing that might be fun would be an
                  airborne cross band repeater or perhaps transponder. 
                  Would that be hard to implement?<br>
                  Fox hunting?  Radio surveying? Dang that's a pretty
                  cool device, wish I were smarter and younger...
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