Lora

dronee
https://dronee.aero/pages/zoon 21km range on 2.4ghz 100mwatt ZOONv3 data ranges from 6km to 21km and the range depends on the configuration of data bandwidth. You can send data up to a 6 kilometer range using 158Kbps speed while 0.5Kbps speed can send data to 21 km using the antenna comes with the module +3dBi. Zoon can work with 1.6 Mhz bandwidth for high speed of 256KBps as well as 200 Khz bandwidth for 0.5 Kbps unlike other protocols that require wider bandwidth. You can create about 500 channels at 0.5Kbps and 100 channels at 158 Kbps that do not interfere with each other.

https://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/zoon-2-4ghz-lora-telemetry-module-by-dronee

ant

 * https://anthonys.io/using-rtl-sdr-to-open-car-doors using LoraWan, https://www.cooking-hacks.com/documentation/tutorials/extreme-range-lora-sx1272-module-shield-arduino-raspberry-pi-intel-galileo/
 * http://www.libelium.com/products/waspmote/

buy
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/2980023 433mhz module Los about 30km. $45

https://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/using-lora-radios-for-long-range-rc LoRa has been making quite a stir in hacker circles over the past couple of years, as it offers a fascinating combination of long range, low power, and low cost. It does this by using spread spectrum techniques on unlicensed frequency bands, meaning it can send data a surprising distance and that you don’t need a radio license to use it. It is mainly used for Internet of Things things, but [Paweł Spychalski] has other ideas: he’s building a system to use it to control a quadcopter drone over dist.... That’s an ambitious aim, considering that the parts he is using cost only a few bucks.

He’s using an off-brand Adafruit Feather LoRa board and a couple of home-made antennas with his own software that takes the data from the Taranis control port of the RC controller, encodes it and chirps it out over the LoRa radio. At the other end, a similar radio receives and decodes the data, feeding it out to the drone.

This is definitely still a work in progress, but he has got it working, flying his drone over the link, keeping control of it out to several hundred meters. At the moment, he can’t go much further as it seems that his LoRa radio is being overwhelmed by the video link on the drone, but he is working on changing the frequency spread & hopping and using a better antenna to provide longer range. We’ve seen some interesting stuff from [Pawel] before, like his DIY telemetry system, so this project is worth keeping an eye on if you are a drone fan.

https://hackaday.com/2018/05/05/lora-system-commands-drones-from-a-distance/

links
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