These videos are awesome. New way to film your antenna farm using drones. W2RE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLDoQDiQ6VQ K3LR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA_NG-bVQuc K4VV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5hz_xRCz4w Does anyone else have any cool footage of ham antenna farms with drones. I would like to see them Bobby KC2UPN
Good the see the Gent in the W2RE video being 100% tied off while he was climbing the tower. Don't see that very often on amateur related tower work. Nice video... ...DOUG KD4MOJ
How do they know where the camera is looking? I see on Amazon, it seems the controller has a smart phone attached. Probably wifi connected to the drone. Is there another way of live viewing without a smart phone since I do not have one, a smart phone I mean. K2WH
I need a drone so i can send a line up to a tall tree and hey presto a easy long wire installation. http://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/quadcopter/ Predator and reaper drones openly broadcast video feeds.Skygrabber software and a receiver.however this may be a encrypted signal now.? maybe a way around that too.
THey use a wireless video data link. Many of the drones are billed as FPV or first person view. Pilots eye view from the drone to your googles or a small screen. THe integration of technology is incredible in just a few years. KU8L
Some controllers have a video screen . Also there are goggles that let you see everything the camera sees. Getting to be pretty standard now. Our son is pretty heavy into the RC helicopters. Drone is not the right term to use. Just RC Controlled Helos.
Yes. There are a few alternatives depending on the sophistication / size of the drone, but the most common is a 2.4 GHz link with the drone to a dedicated monitor (generally in the 7 inch size) connected to a R/C video transceiver. The aircraft you see in these videos are drones, specifically quadracopters (4 bladed), but there are even larger configurations (6 blade, etc). Helicopters have a different configuration, having a main and tail rotor.
Please do post your good crashes also. That is about the only cool Video I have been able to record. You have to spend $1000 + to get out of the Toy range.
The EC2DX contest station can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUcvEQLqUAI 73 Duncan EA5ON
This is one of the most impressive quadcopter videos I have ever seen. https://youtu.be/f1BgzIZRfT8 (a drone is an Air Force aircraft that carries weapons). "The sky-high climb he filmed near Salem with his co-worker Kevin Schmidt has surpassed 2 million views on YouTube and now plays internationally. Thorin is the proprietor of Prairie Aerial Photography."