I’m thinking 2 directional antennas on the vrx. Maybe pepperbox. It’s long range with no silly stuff. So I can keep my head pointed where I want it to fly.
I need to stop thinking about this build!
@Steviegeek just to throw a spanner in the works, this fc will allow you to have 2 fpv cameras. One for flying, one for landing / hovering.
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How does this compare to dji?
Yep, The Matek F722 on my Source One has the same feature.
Also the wip Skyhunter will utilise it better
You’d be surprised at how far 5.8GHz will propagate using the right gear and a bit of imagination.
Back in my amateur radio days I was very keen on satellite comms. A Japanese University launched an amateur radio micro-sat which had the following onboard.
UHF Morse Beacon (200milliwatts to a dipole)
UHF Packet (X25 protocol data) Beacon. (200milliwatts to a dipole)
5.8GHz Analog Video. (400milliwatts to a dipole)
Ultra bright LED Panel to flash Morse Code while in orbit, though I never managed to see this.
I easily received the the Morse Code and Data Beacons and even managed to capture a few frames of video. Not too shabby for a drone 700km away. I have a card somewhere with an acknowledgement of my reports laying around somewhere from the senior professor responsible for the project.
Nidge.
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Cheaper motors than the Brother Hobby Avenger V2’s
and Racestar has a good pedigree
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Yes, it’s Christmas day. But things roll on.
Here is my 3d printed tpu (flexible durable plastic) mount for my runcam 5 hd video recorder
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Loving the whiskey and boxers 
looks like someone done well from Santa! 
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I’m looking to get a tracker for the video. However, I’m still a little unsure how the information melds together.
The way I see it is I can somehow set my crossfire rx to mavlink. Then my Tango 2 will receive the gps and heading (it does anyway, but I suppose it’s a protocol thing). This can then be fed to the tracker so it can point the antenna to the correct direction. However, the only trackers I have seen use bluetooth from the tx to the tracker. My Tango 2 wont do bluetooth, but will do wifi.
Am I on the right lines?
Is there another option?
@Steviegeek @Nidge
I’m a little behind the times when it comes to antenna trackers I’m afraid. Karl.
The last system I used was with the EZOSD. This sent the telemetry down one of the audio channels of the FPV feed. This was then taken from the audio output of the goggles or receiver into the tracker.
Mission Planner supports antenna tracking using Mavlink data.
There is an overview here:
https://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-mission-planner-gps-based-antenna-tracking.html
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I’ve touched on a link fed down the video. Cheers Nidge. I’ll have to do a bit of reading…
Set a UART to telemetry ‘Mavlink’ and connect to channel 3&4 of CSFR receiver, set these channels up in the receiver port settings.
This gets MAV link data to the WiFi port of your TX, then WIFi interface (ESP8266 ???) to convert to serial to stuff into tracker
BUT I think the Crossbow will accept CRSF data now,
Will check in morning
It seems to difficult using the new TBS WiFi from TX, ill send you a link to a forum post on the subject.
I use the old TX with Bluetooth which is much easier. well it works 
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Audio hijacking is a good option
The crossbow does this with another osd type board in the craft
I’ll send a link
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I’ll have a look… into crossbow 
I still have a crossfire module with bluetooth, but it won’t glue onto my tango 2.
But module’s are old skool. Right? 
This started as bluetooth connection then digressed into WiFi, treat it as a starting point
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Mine is still good HaHa
Time for a grey arrows fuming button 
It’s called Tiny Fly module
