Antenna Recommendations for UAS: Introduction

Antenna Recommendations for UAS: Introduction

Introduction

Antennas play an important role to get the maximum performance from the Doodle Labs radios. This document provides general antenna recommendations for UAS use cases. The document is organized as follows

·       Antenna Considerations

o   Considerations for UAS

o   Considerations for GCS

·       Recommended Antennas

·       References

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