flying RTL-SDR RPi

[Samudra Haque]

Are you proposing to modify the antenna connection to the transceiver front
end on a fkying platform remotley operated from ground? Cool. Are there
allowances within the scope of  FCC rules and FAA rules on drone control
range and capability, and FCC certification of the RF part?

In DC I strongly believe that's a no no.

Yes, for 1:1 point to point S-band ISM band I have done that within FCC
regs over 23 km l-o-s, for two years continuous service at 5.5 Mbps. Drones
are a totally different ball game and have more risks associated if the
plans for such get loose.

Please don't ITAR amateur radio, eh? Even SDR passive radar folks just got
in serious trouble.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 19:13 Jacek Radzikowski <jacek.radzikowski at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You can run rtl-tcp. It is light enough that RPi0 nas enough computational
> power to handle it. The SBC on the drone needs to be connected via WiFi to
> your ground station, so adding an external antenna connector may be
> necessary. I did that on Pi0, and it wasn't too scary. IIRC you need to
> move one capacitor (this can be tricky, it's an 0402-ish part), and an MMCX
> connector which you mount on the footprint on the board.
> I use a remote rtl-tcp server running on Pi0 for an AMR meter monitor,
> with the signal processing part running on another computer.
>
> Jacek
> kw4ep
>
>
> On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 at 18:46, Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Since I plan to fly a Raspberry Pi (on a drone) for photo work I figure I
>> could also attach a SDR dongle to it and look at more than just light from
>> 400'.
>>
>> IINM you can run the dongle and computer as servers and read the data
>> remotely, does anyone have this set up?  On a RPi?
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