[dundee] peeking into other peoples backyard

[Paul Lancaster]

not wishing to dampen enthusiasm, you may have to hold off on buying the 
raincoats and trilbies. For r/c equipment that is not landbased special 
equipment / frequencie ranges must be adhered to as well as being 
limited in the airspace youre allowed to use, 35MHz FM seems to spring 
to mind.  However keeping it a ground level, 27MHz AM and FM, 40MHz 
AM/FM and 2.4GHz digital (75 channels of auto negotiation - a absolute 
doddle to use), range is dependant on surroundings but to accurately 
control you got to be able to see it.

For any budding racers - Dunde Radio Car Club would be happy to meet 
you, just contact the chairman - oops thats me :)

Paul

jamie wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	A few weeks ago chris /Kriss mentioned doing a project featuring a
> remote piloted aircraft and some camera's. I had seen some thing in my
> browsing on aeromodelling but could not say where. i have stumbled
> across it again and whats more it is open source, hence not off topic.
> try http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/index.php/Tiny_v2 for the flight
> controller. 
> providing a down link was also seen as a problem but GPRS could be used
> the modules (http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/index.php) are a
> bit pricey but give the range. Other posts indicate wifi gives 3-5km
> range clear field and 900m+ built up. Using standard aerials proper
> siting and more sensitive aerials would increase this markedly. The
> autonomous nature of the control could be used to turn the plane if it
> lost the signal anyway. Hardware has been opensourced as well and
> includes camera control, it is available in kit form or built or
> download the schematics, board layout and software(GPL) and roll your
> own.  
>
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