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Originally Posted by Maemish View Post
I thought of what would be the best way to use drones for short time transmission link points? Like installing some extra battery plus a link point, fly it high, remotely start the transmitter, remotely stop it and fly the drone back. Could easily also hide the exact location if needed for some reason. Drones can fly quite high so the angle for the signal could cover a wide area.
I flew a prototypes that could in theory do a few hundred NM(nautical miles=1852 m, aviation uses feet, knots, and nautical miles) using fixed wing vs helicopter design, it used a two stroke magneto fired gasoline motor. It was to do small 1-2kg for-fun deliveries or dropping survival or medical equipment to located but remote rescues recovering the whole aircraft by parachute, I had some inertial guidance systems I had built when I worked at the university rocket lab as well as GPS receivers to keep the drift away. I had a fully tested module to read from aviation VOR beacons but didn't finish the code to triangulate and place onto a map as I had one working receiver complete. We converted a gunn diode doppler radar to compare the difference between several radar angles for a terrain following radar which we never fully finished but did test a few times strapped to a wing support of a Cessna 172.
http://psas.pdx.edu/

I had thought it would be fun to make a V-1 style pulsejet drone but while it could be cheap and quite quick they waste propane fuel like crazy. There are youtubes of an Australian guy and his pulsejet drones.

The class will compute the expected maximum bandwidth in MB/s of a drone data service with a single drone in operation at any time, drones flying at an average of 40kts carrying 2kg of 128G microSD cards(2g each) between two cities 150NM apart with an average 15 minute recover, unload, reload, refuel, and launch turnaround time.

Last edited by biketool; 2020-03-20 at 11:00.
 

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