Im currently heading a team of engineers working on a high altitute balloon project. We just lost 2 genius COSC majors and now have our head between our legs on alot of the radio part:
Imagine i can read and program in C,C#,C++,Java and Basic
Some advice on best way sending binary data packets over ham radio (less hardware, most compressed)
Launching a glider of a high altitude balloon, as it glides away it is going to take pictures convert them to binary (On board) then transmit them back to a floating mothership & ground location. All while keeping a heading to a GPS location (Thats a different concern)
Any advice on how to convert pictures into a easily sendable and and decodeable binary packet would be greatly appreciated (Just a algorthim would help a bunch) i have been told to use an arduino to convert pictures into a packets
And then what frequencies and protocols are necessary to send such a packet 2-50+ miles, We have a 75 watt transceiver the we have used to send tiny track gps packets through a j pole extreme distances.
As of this second im pretty clueless, but in coming 2 months this is a major goal and will but in the time and reading required to get it done.
Any advice (Besides "Shoot yourself your screwed") would be of great help