# 5G testing capabilities

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/1865/5g-testing-capabilities
Category: Development Drones (https://forum.modalai.com/category/44/development-drones)
Tags: rb5
Posted: 2023-02-22 11:41:21 UTC by JoshRebello
Replies: 1 · Views: 604

## JoshRebello · 2023-02-22 11:41:21 UTC

My company wanted to purchase the Qualcomm Flight™ RB5 5G Platform Drone for testing and research purpose. 
What we were attracted to most was its 5G compatibility and we wanted to know if its 5G module could be altered or reprogrammed in anyway for various testing scenarios? If it's frequency could be set to particular range, etc. On the site its use cases only mention long-range flying and BVLOS but we also wanted to test it with our 5G testbed.  Was hoping you could provide a bit more information on it's 5G module or and all it's capabilities.

## Reply by Eric Katzfey (ModalAI staff) · 2023-02-22 15:51:25 UTC

@JoshRebello This is the 5G module we are using: https://www.modalai.com/collections/modems/products/quectel-rm502q-ae. This also works well with our Sentinel drone which uses our VOXL 2 board instead of the RB5 board and has better capabilities. https://www.modalai.com/pages/sentinel. Even though it doesn't have 5G in it's name it uses the same 5G modem as the RB5 based drone.