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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Or one step further on the "Squat".<br>
Have "human proximity" built in....If a human comes near - leave
and go back later. (Think tall buildings or the top of 2k foot
towers.....)<br>
- Also would be good to have mobile DF equipment!<br>
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Mark<br>
KC5EVE<br>
On 12/6/2015 1:14 PM, Robert Bruninga via aprssig wrote:<br>
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<div>Generally I have had no interest in drones and
kinda figured they will be nothing but trouble.for
all of us....<br>
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But then, they are here, so what APRS applications are
there? I have thought of three, Hover, Squat and
Deliver.<br>
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1) Hover - How long could a special event APRS
digipeater drone remain aloft if it was assisted by a
few party balloons so that it was slightly negative
lift. How long could the drone extend its mission with
the lift motors on their lowest practical speed? and
still do station keeping. An hour? Then all you would
need are two drones, one charging, and one aloft and
swap every hour... Duh, wind of any kind would carry it
away...<br>
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2) Squat - I have seen some event venu's where "it sure
would be nice if we could get a digi up there".... SO
send a drone with APRS digi on it and squat on top of
something very tall.... Probably against every rule
written and un-written.<br>
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3) Deliver - We have this 600' tall tower in Annapolis that
I spent years trying to prevent the Navy from
demolishing... we saved it. But then I got too old to
climb it. I'm excitied at playing with designs of a thingy
that could be deployed by drone and hooked to the very top!<br>
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<div>All this playing with lightweight solar powerd
digiepeaters (Satllites, etc) has always made me want to
build one for the top of that tower... It would do a LOT
more than just the basic ARPS fucntinos... but just lke
space, getting it u p there is thee hard part...<br>
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Anyway, just some mind candy to chew on.<br>
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