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Help: Anyone have experience with RF transmitting/receiving?

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robotdna
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I'm needing to find a long range 434MHz antenna to receive images being transmitted from practically space to plug into an SDR. I can't seem to find an antenna. We are launching the payload that will transmit these images quite soon, so I need to find one fast. Help would be greatly, greatly appreciated.


Here's an image we got last year, but this was grabbed after landing and not live:

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DrZoidberg
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Ask on an rc plane forum? There's probably a space balloon forum.

What's the downlink data rate in something like this.
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robotdna
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DrZoidbergAsk on an rc plane forum? There's probably a space balloon forum.

What's the downlink data rate in something like this.


Thank you!

It changes throughout the flight. That is, probably under 500kb at best every half minute or so, down to smaller photos.
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