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Wilshire@sopuli.xyz to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz ·
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Russians warn on social media of Ukraine allegedly using weather balloons to improve the use of FPV drones.

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Russians warn on social media of Ukraine allegedly using weather balloons to improve the use of FPV drones.

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Wilshire@sopuli.xyz to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz ·
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https://t.me/ssternenko/26554

The weather probe flies over the BPR, scatters tags for connecting to FPV…

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world
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    I would bet these are mobile RTK stations to improve the accuracy of the drones to centimeter level. That looks like an ESP32 and LoRa transmitter on the board, probably with a uBlox F9P on the back for positioning.

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      That’s pretty clever.

  • snooggums@midwest.social
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    First pic is a danger pickle.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    What is a retro-slator?

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      The poor translator app couldn’t into bad spelling. It’s “retranslator”.

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        I think re-transmitter or repeater would be a more accurate translation.

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          Not a native speaker, so you’re probably right. I checked to see that the word exists before posting, but oh well. Bad spelling part still stands tho

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