My son used his 6 blade to inspect my tower over Easter. With a HD camera
and stabilization software, you can see quite a lot. He was flying it in
between the elements on my HF Yagi.
Now, to put a wrench and soldering iron on the thing...
Mike K9MK
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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of David
Robbins
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 6:49 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: the future of antenna and tower inspection
its a Parrot AR-Drone 2.0. http://ardrone2.parrot.com/usa/ i have flown it
around my living/dining room (has about 12' vaulted ceiling) a dozen or so
times... but that was only my 3rd or 4th attempt outside as it has been
rather windy up here. it is very easy to fly as it stabilizes itself with
internal gyros, uses a downward looking low-def camera (that you can also
watch remotely) to sense motion over the ground, and has both ultrasonic and
pressure sensors for altitude control... so take your hands off the controls
and it stops where it is and hovers. plus there is one-button takeoff and
landing, which are usually the hardest things to master.
Apr 14, 2013 06:17:14 PM, hanslg@aol.com wrote:
Really, really nice. What exactly is it you have there and how long did you
have to train before you could make that perfect flight.
Seems good for inspections of your rigs.
Hans - N2JFS
-----Original Message-----
From: K1TTT
To: antennas ; reflector -tower
Sent: Sun, Apr 14, 2013 3:12 pm
Subject: [TowerTalk] the future of antenna and tower inspection
Well, except for the part where I chase the dog around the yard that is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIfhRzGo8uI
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://wiki.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://k1ttt.net
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