We could do that, and we've thought of that. But there's a lot of reasons to have ATV on 2.4 GHz and switch telemetry to 5.8 GHz, including having much smaller patch antennas. And 802.11a fits the bill for 5.8 GHz, and is a known standard, and we don't have to (we hope) write custom firmware to get it up and running.
Andrew Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:15:15AM -0700, Andrew Greenberg wrote: >> Could you look into the RS9110-N-11-03, an 802.11abgn module that talks SPI? >> >> http://www.redpinesignals.com/product_module.html >> >> And see if we might be able to use this for our 802.11a telemetry? They >> claim to have drivers for Linux, whatever that means. >> >> We're still hoping to boost our telemetry to 5.8 GHz. > > Honestly, at this point, having seen Keith's nice communication modules > in action, I think we should just use those. They connect to USB, and > work like a USB serial device. As long as we can manage to not saturate > the USB bus, I think those will do exactly what we want. > > - Josh Triplett > > _______________________________________________ > psas-avionics mailing list > psas-avionics@lists.psas.pdx.edu > http://lists.psas.pdx.edu/mailman/listinfo/psas-avionics > > -- ------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Greenberg Portland State Aerospace Society (http://psas.pdx.edu/) and...@psas.pdx.edu P: 503.788.1343 C: 503.708.7711 ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ psas-avionics mailing list psas-avionics@lists.psas.pdx.edu http://lists.psas.pdx.edu/mailman/listinfo/psas-avionics
