octodreamerFNG
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wasn't sure where else to post this but i figured this was the only place it fit...
looking at the headplay goggles and was thinking about an antenna tracker and it got me thinking... as small as the 5.8 antennas are, why not mount a small pan/tilt tracker with a helical on the multi-rotor to always point at me instead?
the thinking here would be a diversity type setup with a cloverleaf for close range or crossovers but after that you'd have a laser beam of signal pointed at you no matter where the craft is.
which got me thinking (and yeah i know this goes against the whole LOS concept)... couldn't you have a tracker on both ends therefore giving you crazy range?
back in the day i did a lot of "war-driving" and messing with wifi. a couple friends had built themselves pringles can "can-tennas" and we got the idea to use them on a camping trip to extend my friends wifi from his rooftop on a hill to a to our campsite miles away.
so i'm fairly certain two helicals pointed directly at each other can work to give you extended range, just not sure how it translates over to RC 2.4 or 5.8 applications.
there's lots of long range systems available out there in the lower frequencies but i wonder if anyone has ever toyed with the idea of two trackers talking to each other using 5.8?
thoughts? ideas?
and hey while we're at it... (and this is where it gets real silly)
lets say i'm in a location with a ton of tall trees but i wanted to send up a multirotor to explore around... obvious problem being as soon as i get outside of my little cone of vision of the sky... i loose connection.
so then would it be possible to have a craft that only serves a purpose of bouncing a signal from a craft back to the ground? like a long flying multirotor with lots of mah that just hovers 200 feet or so over your head and uses 2 different bandwidths to talk to both you and the craft and act like a relay system.
so for example the plane would have a tracker sending 5.8 back to the hovering multirotor, which then uses 900 to send it back to the ground to my ground station?
is any of this possible or am i missing something?
if so... what kind of range could you get without having to buy a high dollar long range system?
looking at the headplay goggles and was thinking about an antenna tracker and it got me thinking... as small as the 5.8 antennas are, why not mount a small pan/tilt tracker with a helical on the multi-rotor to always point at me instead?
the thinking here would be a diversity type setup with a cloverleaf for close range or crossovers but after that you'd have a laser beam of signal pointed at you no matter where the craft is.
which got me thinking (and yeah i know this goes against the whole LOS concept)... couldn't you have a tracker on both ends therefore giving you crazy range?
back in the day i did a lot of "war-driving" and messing with wifi. a couple friends had built themselves pringles can "can-tennas" and we got the idea to use them on a camping trip to extend my friends wifi from his rooftop on a hill to a to our campsite miles away.
so i'm fairly certain two helicals pointed directly at each other can work to give you extended range, just not sure how it translates over to RC 2.4 or 5.8 applications.
there's lots of long range systems available out there in the lower frequencies but i wonder if anyone has ever toyed with the idea of two trackers talking to each other using 5.8?
thoughts? ideas?
and hey while we're at it... (and this is where it gets real silly)
lets say i'm in a location with a ton of tall trees but i wanted to send up a multirotor to explore around... obvious problem being as soon as i get outside of my little cone of vision of the sky... i loose connection.
so then would it be possible to have a craft that only serves a purpose of bouncing a signal from a craft back to the ground? like a long flying multirotor with lots of mah that just hovers 200 feet or so over your head and uses 2 different bandwidths to talk to both you and the craft and act like a relay system.
so for example the plane would have a tracker sending 5.8 back to the hovering multirotor, which then uses 900 to send it back to the ground to my ground station?
is any of this possible or am i missing something?
if so... what kind of range could you get without having to buy a high dollar long range system?