Re: [Paparazzi-devel] digital video link anyone?

[Tilman Baumann]

On 12 May 2013, at 15:46, Gerard Toonstra wrote:

> Yes, I posted on diydrones about this setup.
>
> WiFi has a limitation of up to 55km because it needs to acknowledge  
> receipt for packets and the max. waiting time is 800ns or so.
> The UBNT systems allow you to turn that off (ACK timeout), but then  
> I don't know what the quality of the reception is going to be like.
> Anyway, I don't think ranges beyond that are interesting anyway,  
> unless you're in the mountains.


DVB-T technology could be the way to go. There are companies who build  
stuff like that in small. Perhaps not small enough to go airborne, but  
maybe that is not out of the question.
For example the guys who operate the DVB system at the annual Chaos  
Communication Congress.