[jmstech]

One of beta testers in the US just did a 6 mile (9.65KM) FPV trip with Dragon Link and had no glitches what so ever. I got the call this morning that he already put 40 hours into Dragon Link so this is a positive move. I will post a video of his trip as soon as he finishes editing this journey. FWIW, he used Daniel's Dragon OSD with GPS and autopilot which will display proof of LOS (Line Of Sight) distance from HOME position. This was done with no signal booster of any sort and on a regular dipole antenna. The video gear was a Lawmate 1W 2.4Ghz with standard whip on the tx. Video display system is a 32" Sharp ( I believe) LCD monitor installed in his mini van. Pretty radical set up but he's well known in this field and a old timer professional.

I just need to get more feed back from the other beta testers in Canada, another in US and Europe.

John

[buffythesaint]

Originally Posted by jmstech

One of beta testers in the US just did a 6 mile (9.65KM) FPV trip with Dragon Link and had no glitches what so ever. I got the call this morning that he already put 40 hours into Dragon Link so this is a positive move. I will post a video of his trip as soon as he finishes editing this journey. FWIW, he used Daniel's Dragon OSD with GPS and autopilot which will display proof of LOS (Line Of Sight) distance from HOME position. This was done with no signal booster of any sort and on a regular dipole antenna. The video gear was a Lawmate 1W 2.4Ghz with standard whip on the tx. Video display system is a 32" Sharp ( I believe) LCD monitor installed in his mini van. Pretty radical set up but he's well known in this field and a old timer professional.

I just need to get more feed back from the other beta testers in Canada, another in US and Europe.

John

John, can you explain his test procedure a little more? Did he have the camera fixed, say with pan and tilt working. Did he drive away, on flat open road, with the Tx and video Rx in the van and could pan and tilt at 6 miles? Does that sound right? LMK.

Buffy.

[jmstech]

Originally Posted by buffythesaint

John, can you explain his test procedure a little more? Did he have the camera fixed, say with pan and tilt working. Did he drive away, on flat open road, with the Tx and video Rx in the van and could pan and tilt at 6 miles? Does that sound right? LMK.

Buffy.

Well he parked his van, sat back in front of his plasma tv and watched as he flew his plane 6 miles (9.65km) away from inside his van. His camera is fixed with no pan/tilt but that is really no issues since if you can operate channels 1 to 7 to operate a plane, then channels 8 and 9 can operate pan and tilt... even at 6 or more miles away. Check out my buddy's test results, you will be mighty impressed. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...1#post12333418

John

[tech1]

Any testers in the Toronto area.

I would be interested in seeing this in action. If you need assistance with monitoring, chase car, video etc, I can lend a hand.
I am interested in seeing this as an alternative to 72Mhz in my AP ships.

[buffythesaint]

John. I checked out the photos of the test flying, very nice. What autopilot system did he use? LMK.


Buffy.

[jmstech]

Well the lead time from the manufacturer for the modules are about 2 to 3 weeks until they arrive to Daniel. PCB should be next week the cases from Italy should arrive to my door next week so it's all coming along and I'll be back here and let you know when I will start to take orders. The OSD with autopilot was Daniel's first project (2007) which I helped named Dragon OSD for www.intelligentflight.com

John

[jmstech]

Originally Posted by tech1

Any testers in the Toronto area.

I would be interested in seeing this in action. If you need assistance with monitoring, chase car, video etc, I can lend a hand.
I am interested in seeing this as an alternative to 72Mhz in my AP ships.

Well none in Toronto but I do have one in Muskoka

[jmstech]

Well my one beta tester is still working on his video and I think he is finding out how much of a big learning curve it is to use Sony Vegas, but it does a fine job of deinterlacing analogue videos. So here is a screen capture he did manage to get for me. Note: LOS on the lower right is the distance he was traveling away from start point.

10.18KM and he wasn't even pushing it. Not bad eh?

[buffythesaint]

John, thats awsome.... Any reason the altitude was blanked out? How high do you need to be to go 10km?

Buffy.

[jmstech]

I blanked that out because I don't think my buddy likes to show off how high he went. We don't need MIB to show up at his door. Now what my friends next plan is to fly 10 or more KM at 100 feet off the ground which was not possible for him with traditional equipment. BTW Buffy, PCBs arrived along with most of the other components. My cases arrived from Italy so we're still waiting for the modules to arrive which should be around mid June. BTW what radio do you plan on installing this? You need to know where the PPM, power, ground are located on the stock module inside your TX. What is needed to be done is to either unplug (if internal module) old module and plug into DL to make this work.

I'm using a Futaba 9CAP and the module can be pulled out from the back and 5 pins are exposed. Dragon Link simply plugs into that and I', ready to rock!

Here are some pictures: one is my Futaba which I forgot to mention PIN 1 is DL PPM yellow wire.

Second picture is a beta tester in Europe who tapped into his Gruapner/JR MX16 radio