DJI put the SDR Transmission 2 on sale around the world today at £309 in the United Kingdom and from €349 in the eurozone. A Combo with two transceivers costs £559 or from €629. The announcement carries prices in pounds and euros, and no dollar figure anywhere.
DroneXL wrote five days ago that the September 17 event would produce a country list without the United States on it. The list arrived this morning. It does not mention America once.
The hardware itself has been on sale in China since September 1 at 1,999 yuan. It is a 136-gram transceiver that sends DCI 4K at 60 frames per second in 10-bit HDR over H.265 at up to 50 Mbps, rated at 35 milliseconds of latency and a maximum range of 2.5 miles (4 kilometers). One box now does the work of the separate transmitter and receiver DJI has sold since 2024.
DJI Sells the Single Unit at £309 and the Combo at £559
DJI set the SDR Transmission 2 at £309 in the UK and from €349 in the eurozone. The Combo pairs two transceivers for £559 or from €629. Sales opened September 17 through store.dji.com, DJI Stores and authorized retailers. No American price was published.
DJI’s launch announcement runs to roughly 900 words on frequency management, monitoring tools and power options, and never names a country. The currencies do that job instead.
The word doing the quiet work there is “from.” Eurozone pricing moves country by country, so €349 is a floor rather than a sticker, and British buyers get the one clean number.
The benchmark for what Americans are losing is the 2024 SDR Transmission, which launched on July 17 that year at $549 for a transmitter and receiver together and $309 for a single unit. That system tops out at 1080p and 20 Mbps. It remains the newest wireless video link DJI can legally sell in the United States, and it will stay that way.
DroneXL covered the September 1 launch date in August, when a leaked retail box carried the words TX/RX SWITCHABLE and a display render reading 4K 60fps HDR. Both survived into shipping hardware.
One Transceiver Now Does the Job of Two Separate Boxes
Every SDR Transmission 2 unit transmits or receives. A switch on the body picks the role, and the unit reboots into it. One transmitter feeds up to eight receivers, each with an uplink for camera control, and larger productions can run five transmitters against 40 receivers at once.
A crew buys a count of units instead of a ratio, and a spare is never the wrong kind of spare. That is the part that changes a rental inventory, more than the resolution jump does.
Switching between camera feeds no longer means rebooting and re-pairing. A tap on a receiver or a tap in the Ronin app does it. DJI calls the frequency coordination Auto Channel 2.0, and it hands the channel planning that used to be a crew member’s job to the radios themselves, with frequency-scan readouts and channel-conflict diagnostics on the unit. DJI says “a reliable link can be established in various environments” on sets crowded with competing signals.
An optional expansion board adds an SDI port, an HDMI video port and four USB-C ports, and passes SDI metadata from mainstream cinema cameras through to the monitor. An optional cage covers car mounts. Power comes from NP-F batteries at 6.8V to 8.4V, from a PD charger, or from an RS 5, RS 4, RS 4 Pro, RS 3 Pro, Ronin 2 or Master Wheels with the transceiver mounted on the gimbal. The control cables for those gimbals are sold separately, which is the kind of detail that ruins a Friday.
The Covered List Keeps the New Radio Out of American Sets
The Federal Communications Commission added DJI’s communications equipment to its Covered List on December 22, 2025. Listed equipment cannot receive the authorization a new model needs before it is imported or sold in the United States. A wireless video link is a radio, so the ban reaches it.
DroneXL walked through the mechanics when the Covered List expansion landed in December, and the FCC’s public notice is the operative document. DJI’s petition for reconsideration sits in ET Docket 26-22, where oppositions closed on April 6 and replies closed on May 11. The record then reopened: the Office of Engineering and Technology took further comment on a DJI-commissioned security assessment until August 28. That window shut three weeks ago and the Commission has not ruled. DJI’s parallel Ninth Circuit case is in abeyance with an opening brief due November 2, and DJI told that court in April that $1.56 billion in 2026 revenue turns on the outcome.
American crews keep what they already own. The listing does not reach backwards, the 2024 units stay legal to own, use and resell, and the FCC waived the firmware cutoff for pre-listing equipment through at least January 1, 2029. Importing a new transceiver personally is possible and carries no US warranty and no legal path to resale.
DroneXL’s Take
A 136-gram box whose whole purpose is moving a picture from a camera to a director’s monitor is now contraband in the United States on the strength of who assembled it. Nothing about the hardware changed between the 2024 model Americans can buy and the 2026 model they cannot.
The Commission applied a statute Congress passed and did not invent the category it is enforcing. That is the strongest defense available for the December listing, and it is a defense of process. The statute names a company. The people it removes from the market are the small American crews the first SDR Transmission was built and priced for, the ones who bought a $549 combo in 2024 precisely because the alternatives cost thousands.
I don’t read today’s release as DJI punishing anyone. A company that cannot get an equipment authorization does not write a US price, and DJI has stopped pretending there is a conversation to have about it. The silence is the position now. The Osmo 360 II launched from Berlin two weeks ago with a valid FCC ID in hand and no American market, and DJI never explained that one either. This launch at least has a legal reason behind it.
What sits unanswered is at the FCC, not in Shenzhen. DJI’s reconsideration record closed for the second time on August 28, and the Commission has said nothing since, while the products the listing covers keep shipping to every country except this one. An American cinematographer who wants 4K on a wireless monitor feed this week buys Teradek or Hollyland and pays for the privilege. That was the outcome the ban was going to produce, and it is now simply the market.
Sources: DJI, FCC Public Notice DA 25-1086, FCC Public Notice DA 26-592
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