flying RTL-SDR RPi

[Samudra Haque]

900 Mhz ISM band ? Amateur band? Or higher?

Lower bands will work in more scenarios for spread spectrum signals.

On Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 18:39 Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> wrote:

> I've seen that mod on the web somewhere.  Probably for proof of concept
> I'll try the stock antenna and stay close.  The Pi 0 2w seems like it might
> be worth buying if I can find a place that has it in stock!  I stared work
> on a mounting plate to attach with the little rubber vibration dampers,
> also I'm working on a way to get power off the main battery. For the power
> tap I'll browse through the Phantom forums to make sure I don't spike the
> main board (Houston we have a problem...).
>
> On 11/19/2022 7:13 PM, Jacek Radzikowski 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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