Hello,
Did anybody try yet if Sigfox communication or similar products work in flight?
https://www.sigfox.com/en
It is very narrow band but still I could imagine a few interesting use cases…
Hi Sebastian,
I haven’t but if you’d like an introduction to the company, please PM me.
Patrick
One could certainly transmit tafs and metars this way, and radar images compress pretty well (many years ago I suggested a way of doing that over SMS, to Avbrief, who then did nothing with it).
The protocol-free way they transmit the packets is exactly the way one would set up a satellite phone service for aviation data: UDP and not TCP. Send each packet a few times… The catch is that the client needs to be on a fixed (or otherwise known to the server) IP.
The Q is whether you get any signal when high up.
