Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on June 19, 2009 at 12:03am

I thought that might be Mr G at Summerheights high Angus, that would have been something.

Comment by Not Sure on June 19, 2009 at 2:39am

It's interesting in that the phone network in australia is only in urban areas, and sketchy at best in country areas. Add to this, no UAV is allowed to fly over urban or populated areas in Australia currently. Added to this, that all phone towers are pointing their signal dowards ie below 400ft towards the earth. It's a fruitful exercise of wasting taxpayers money imo. Flying a UAV on 3g is a good thing, but who can use 3g in the outback of australia where 3g doesn't exist....

Comment by Mitch on June 19, 2009 at 2:42am

Ahah good thing they didn't rely on Optus networks, sigh...

Comment by RolandS888 on June 19, 2009 at 3:03am

Looks like a silvertone flamingo

Comment by bGatti on June 19, 2009 at 6:28am

I rather suspect that with superior line-of-sight, Airplanes get better than average signal 3g or otherwise, I further suspect that the rural areas of Australia are as likely as say Egypt to get cell phone coverage in the near future, and I'd take that bet most days.

Comment by Tomas Ayala on June 19, 2009 at 10:50am

better signal because they're higher or lack of stuff blocking signals? (buildings, cars, etc)

Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on June 19, 2009 at 12:26pm

I can tell you from fullsize flying cell phone reception is dodgy when up there, I think you confuse the system and open up too many towers, as well as the tower antennas pointing down.

Anyhow cell phones are not great when you are airborne, somebody here will know the proper reason.

Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on June 19, 2009 at 4:09pm

Oh and Mr G http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_qh3urEOK8

Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on June 19, 2009 at 4:13pm

look its your fault Angus that I'm lost in youtube watching Summer Heights clips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y11mMp2CSiI It also reminds me of living in Melbourne ;-)

Moderator Comment by Joseph Glanville on June 19, 2009 at 9:54pm

It is a Silverstone Flamingo.
It's QUTs/ARCAAs 'QUAS'.
My bet is this will be QUTs entry in this years UAV Outback challenge.

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