I am building a hobby glider that uses a Raspberry pi zero 2w as the companion computer. It is connected to a pixracer flight controller.
I want to fly the glider outdoors and need to set up Wi-Fi telemetry for safety purposes and to transmit/receive data.
I can’t find anything on the internet about the range of the existing Wi-Fi module inside the raspi but I am guessing it’s not long enough for outdoor flying (the required telemetry range is up to 150m).
So far I have thought about adding an external flexible antenna (see https://youtu.be/Y648CjIiEv8) but it looks very complicated as I don’t have experience with micro soldering.
I have also thought about adding an ESP telemetry module like the ESP8266 on my raspi.
Are there any other/better ways by which I can extend the Wi-Fi range of my raspi zero 2w? I want to avoid using big antennae or dongles to keep the weight of the hardware minimum.
