<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Martin W6MRR<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Terry McCarty - WA5NTI <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:3t3@comcast.net" target="_blank">3t3@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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Pete -<br>
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How much voltage and current does a drone require to maintain a 'steady
state' altitude of 300 ft ?<br>
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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. <br>
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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 ?<br>
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kf4hcw wrote:
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<div>On 07/24/2016 12:19 PM, Alex Fraser
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<blockquote type="cite"><font size="+1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">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.</font></font></blockquote>
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The problem is endurance.<br>
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