My Ground station till date was only functionally doing great but not much to look at. decided to upgrade the same to a more professional setup. The present setup was catering for both 900 Mhz as well as 5.8 Ghz. I was using for both Rangevideo as well as Eagle tree.

It had the Laptop in the same GCS for Recording as well as for telemetry.

Now decided to separate the Laptop to a different box and further make two different GCS seperate for 900 Mhz and 5.8 Ghz and one with Rangevideo Diversity/telemetry and other with Eagle tree  diversity/telemetry.

The present Setup

The 900 Mhz with Rangevideo Telemetry and Diversity has to go in this Box.

NICE SETUP sir!

Great work ..... I'd like to them in action ...

Not that I understand much of this Technical Mumbo Jumbo ( I guess I'm not educated enough  ), however, that balcony brings back memories of a wonderful evening.  

Even though the charcoal grate had everything non vegetarian!  

Thanks Zonuna, The GCS is getting smaller to be more portable. May be some day in near future in Aizwal. what say.

VC we are too missing the company. Last Time I believe I goofed up. This time it will be a separate grill for the veggies for sure.

Paneer! Paneer! Paneer!

No one goofed up, Ma'm more than made up for it with the fantastic menu that was to follow later! We plan to impose ourselves on you soon.

You are most welcome VC. We will be looking fwd to it. 

Wow great setup... Sir Whats is that mounted on that tripod 

Thank you Arun. 900 Mhz 9 dbi patch antenna.

Id like to hook it up with flight yoke, and fly as a Flight Sim :-)

All the electronics loosely placed and the foldable shroud fitted.



Filtered power supply for the Receivers and torroided power cable for Monitor and Goggle. Rangevideo Telemetry Down link as well as antenna tracker and digital video recorder.

Contents of the monitor side flap are the monitor both the receivers for diversity setup, Box to hold the Goggle when in packed condition. Both the receiver fitted with Low band pass when using 2.4 Ghz amplified setup. and will be replaced with High band pass when used with an 433 LRS.

Sundaram sir...the case is nice...where did you buy it...how much is it??

The view inside with Foldable Shroud Deployed.



The deployed GCS

The box was  a Audio Cordless mic box for 10 Mics. Bought for 2500/- from the Local Musical Instruments shop. The last piece he had.

Folded GCS the top flap and bottom flap.



The closed GCS with all contents inside and spare space for a small laptop or a Patch/Biquad/Pepper box antenna.

It would have been nice if I could have interchanged the location of Diversity/antenna tracker and Digital recorder with that of the goggle box, but the Antenna tracker is taking power supply from balance connector of the same  Lipo. So it is there for now may be later i might rearrange as they are just stuck in place with velcro.

Sandy sir, I'm drooling over that setup. You might find this funny, and silly perhaps, but I modded my drum throne into something that can mount your GCS very well, while giving 360 degree turn around motion. will send you some pictures soon . Long way before I get into FPV, but just doing the preparations.

Thanks Girish.
More to come are the antenna tracking mount setup, live telemetry tracking on Map.

The rangevideo antenna tracker has nice provisions of display of telemetry like lat& lon, model range and height, model voltage and amperage and mah consumed, GCS voltage all on the LCD of antenna tracker. Full telemetry is recorded on the micro SD. Further coupled with a laptop and any GCS software one can access, track live and record full telemetry.

When gauravag comes here next week we are going to have loads of fun doing formation flying.

My 5.8 Ghz Ground Station with Eagletree Diversity & antenna tracker with both Rangevideo & Fatshark Receiver. The 7" LCD is from Satyagupta. Both the Goggle and Digital Recorder can be moved to this easily since the provisions have been left for it.



If you run out of LC filters you can make your self one 

  Sundaram sir, i really need to catch up with you soon. You're giving me much food for though for this http://www.rcindia.org/self-designed-diy-and-college-projects/flying-on-a-3d-joystick/msg134471/#msg134471

It looks amazing, very prof.

Thanks Girish 

Today My GCS gets an upgrade of Scratch built Circular polarized directional antenna IB Crazy 10dbi Cross Hair for 900 Mhz band (channel 1010Mhz) and 1.2 Ghz Band (Channel 1160 Mhz).

Now I will have to definitely almost always fly with my 2 Watts Booster on the radio.

DEADLY. awesome Sir. 0.8mm mig wire?

Thanks Pravesh. 0.9mm copper alloy wire.  Recovered from Dish TV antenna wire center conductor.  the mig wire I have is 0.8mm its less than the min dia for a cross  hair of 900 I suppose.

Will use that for 1.3 Ghz