At first glance it appears to be like any RC monster truck with the body removed. But look again at the cute FRS radio mounted on top like the antenna of an alien spaceship and the digital video RAM chips under the hood and it is obviously a new development in FPV vehicles.
What's different about it?
It solves the problem many of today's land FPV's suffer from in line-of-sight communications. This is a major limitation, as operating in urban areas or where trees and buildings block your signal can cut your range down to a few hundred meters instead of a few miles as many radios are advertised to. If you do some research you will find that the low frequency HF transmitters can propogate past buildings and trees much better than UHF and microwave transmitters do.
The only difficulty with using HF is that the bands cannot fit video signals onto them, so you need to digitally slow the images before putting them onto HF. The video starts with a KT&C high definition Ex-view imager with Sony's latest DSP chipset. Then it gets redigitized through a 10-bit Burr-Brown ADC and buffered by a 256 kilobyte video RAM chip before being frequency modulated so it can be piped into the microphone jack of your favorite handheld radio.
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