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Permalink Reply by Raytrace Nomad on August 16, 2010 at 7:14am

The Xbee modules work up to 6 miles. ?

Their output's is not so high , i think their range is smaller then 6 miles ?

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Gary Mortimer on August 16, 2010 at 7:37am

No Xbees won't operate out to 6 miles, its illegal anyhow. Your RC will probably not work much beyond 500m either.

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by John Arne Birkeland on August 21, 2010 at 1:36pm

For my long range 2-way serial system I used some 433mhz radio modems. Operation is the same as with Xbee's giving your a two-way serial communications pipe over radio. But range is much better.
link: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/long-range-rc-control-and

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Permalink Reply by Raytrace Nomad on August 21, 2010 at 10:52pm

You can use http://store.diydrones.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=WI-AMP-24...

without any modification to your 2.4ghz RC system.

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Michael Smith on August 22, 2010 at 1:29am

The FrSky modules have been tested out to about 5km LoS. There are many variables however; your question is too vague for a simple answer.

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Permalink Reply by wurpfel on August 22, 2010 at 2:04am

hi folkz

you can use the XBEEs in both variants: 2G4 for testing RC-like "in sight" and the longrange 900 or 868XBEE for telemetry and waypointsetting.. works for me up to 5mi but some nasty 10% dutycycle...

or control when in sight the UAV with classic RCgear or 2G4 XBEE and communicate with a GSMmodem on mission. you can live-track with leonardo, send MMS and SMStelemetry. for me the best way of longrange-UAV. but beware of the LAG ;-) and use a data-flatrate on your mobile!!!

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Permalink Reply by Keegan on August 27, 2010 at 4:18pm

my futaba 6ex has been out to 1.75 miles easy

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