Re: Radio Control

[hylands@ibm.net (Jon Hylands)]

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 12:08:23 -0400, "Dan J. Rice" <dan.j.rice@sherwin.com>
wrote:

> I know water is a poor conductor of radio waves except at VLF and ULF
> frequencies.  Even the antennae for those are cumbersome.  Has anyone tried a
> radio controlled submersible? If so what operational depth is expectable?  Or
> are there other possibilities, sonar perhaps?  Could a psub with an underwater
> microphone/speaker and an onboard processor with something like a modem
> translate commands, perhaps even send back images?

Check out http://www.nosc.mil/robots/undersea/auss/auss.html

for an (very expensive) example of this.

Later,
Jon

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