About

Gender

Male


Location

Smithers, BC


About Me:

Research Geomorphologist with the Province of British Columbia, Canada.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Research and monitoring of natural resource sector related issues including landslides, road building, stream channels and forest.


Hometown:

Smithers


Activity Feed

Matt Sakals replied to Seppo's discussion RFD900, RFD900+ - New long range radio modem
"I had installed fresh drivers, but not these ones:
http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm"
Aug 25, 2017
Matt Sakals replied to Seppo's discussion RFD900, RFD900+ - New long range radio modem
"Solved by Craig Richardson at Event38, just needed different drivers in the laptop..."
Aug 24, 2017
Matt Sakals replied to Seppo's discussion RFD900, RFD900+ - New long range radio modem
"Tried that along with different connections, different power sources... no luck at all
Very frustrating but thanks for your attempt. Matt"
Aug 24, 2017
Matt Sakals replied to cj's discussion Ricoh GR
"Was a faulty cable or I had cooked it previously. James sent out a new one and it worked flawlessly. Nice to have both video out and shutter control together. "
Aug 21, 2017
Matt Sakals replied to Seppo's discussion RFD900, RFD900+ - New long range radio modem
"Hello, 
I've got a set of RFD900+ radios that I'm having trouble with. The local end is powered by USB through the jDrones RFD900 adapter (v1.1) from my laptop running the current version of Windows 10. The remote end is powered from a Pixhawk…"
Aug 21, 2017
Matt Sakals replied to Drone-University.com's discussion Export waypoint text file to Google Earth ?
"Any luck with this? I have similar issue in that I have a large area to survey and it seems best to break it into several flights. It's difficult to discern whether I have acceptable coverage between the surveys. 
Thanks in advance."
Jun 15, 2015
Matt Sakals replied to cj's discussion Ricoh GR
"I'd like to hear if anyone else has got the GR V (APSC Sensor) to work off of a Pixhawk. I"m using a gentles USB video cable and James Gentles has been trying to help me out but to not avail. I am getting good video out, but no shutter action.…"
Feb 24, 2015