Target camera for longer range - how to view bullet strike from firing point 300m away

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takbok said:
What about an FPV drone camera system? Should be pretty cheap via AliExpress or similar.
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Deconstructed crashed drones can work at treat! made some for work several years ago and the quality of cheaper drones is much higher now...IP type camera Wifi-ey links will work but why reinvent the wheel! Drones are designed for exactly this purpose.
 
urban said:
A camera on the range floor could compromise the danger area of the range - so wouldn't be allowed on any well-managed range. The risk is higher if the camera is armoured. Dug into the range floor would be OK, I guess.
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Agreed. "Armoured" was intended to be short-hand for protected. In my mind's eye that probably meant behind sand bags. The point being that no protection of the RF transmitter is possible as that needs line-of-sight back to the firing point.


CreedSnore said:
why reinvent the wheel! Drones are designed for exactly this purpose.
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Not familiar with drone use for this purpose. Please elaborate.

The use case is moorland which can experience significant wind. Can drones hold station [autonomously] for 5 hours? Would the image span multiple targets? Does the drone video output work PTMP? I.e. each shooter wants to see only their own target, so is that possible or do all see same wide angle view drone is set to? Do you have any product links I could review?
 
takbok said:
What about an FPV drone camera system?
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I searched for that and think that may be the route to go.

Essentially, the drone community have already fine-tuned the deployment of lightweight video transmission from drones to a user interface 500m away to make possible First Person Viewing flight possible.

The issues with the solutions I have seen so far:

  • transmitters appear to use 5.8Ghz part of spectrum and...
  • ...transmitters and receivers use dedicated software
  • wide FOV [typically 122° or more] on cameras may not deliver granular enough image to see 6.5mm holes in 5 targets abreast

It looks like one FPV camera could feed one FPV monitor and off the shelf options like that are circa £160:

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This solution does not scale to 10 shooters looking at 10 targets individually. Apparently there exist some hacks to get [some] receivers to share the video in a generic format that software like VLC can use. Going down that route means dedicated laptops rather than plug-n-play smartphone-log-on-to-wifi-webcam.

Anyone who has married FPV to multi-user plug-n-play, please chip in.
 
DJI goggles have the software option to act as a wifi source of FPV for smart devices that are tethered to it. It takes a few steps...but this looks do-able albeit not cheap:

 
Found it!
Now that the nvforumuk is back up and running I went back to look for the machine camera fpv systems mentioned above(They’re Watecs!) with the following results..



A quick browse of some of the articles in there include testing at range and found mine mounting the TX/RX to my WT1 Scope with a screen in the cab so the driver could watch the foxing action.

Some good advice on FPV transmitters in there too

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Fizz
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They were never cheap n cheerful 🫤 even secondhand….

Just followed the link to Sure 24 in the forum advertisers section and on to the KPC Products in there… might be something suitable? 🤔

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You can't really beat the Shotmarker/Kongsberg target systems for sheer shooter convenience, but setup and maintenance needs to be spot on.

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