[Scan-DC] DC "drone"?
Doug Kitchener
oldsdoug at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 27 21:13:27 EDT 2013
Wasn't there a movie about that?...
(not "Blue Thunder"!) :)
What am I thinking of... seriously, seems to me there was a movie a few years ago that used an RC helicopter for something...
I hadn't thought about it, but I guess RC must have come a long way... I worked at (now defunct) Comsat Laboratories out in Clarksburg back in the 1970s, and there were several guys there who used to fly RC planes at lunchtime... one time, one of them flew out of range of the controller, never to be found again... I've always wondered if it was discovered years later when they "developed" Clarksburg... no GPS or miniature cameras back then!
Is there any kind of licensing requirement now for the RC gear, Merlin? I had no idea they had that kind of range these days... as you say, surprised there's so little regulation on them now. I always wonder what our foremothers and forefathers would think of all this technology, and some of the stuff it's used for, or can be used for (traffic cams, speed cams, license plate scanners, security cameras, GPS, EZ Pass, electronic records of everything)...
----- Original Message -----
> From: "merlin at merlinjacobs.com" <merlin at merlinjacobs.com>
> To: Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at yahoo.com>; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Cc:
> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 7:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] DC "drone"?
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> A friend of mine and I are in to RC quad and hexa copters. We can fly them at
> thousands of feet and more than a mile away. We have them set up for live video
> transmit back to our ground station with on board recording and ground station
> recording. They have failsafe GPS return home features, etc. They can carry a
> payload of several pounds. We use them to inspect our ham towers and do aerial
> photography for our friends. As soon as some nut gets the bright idea to use
> them for evil proposes, I’m sure the government will regulate them.
> Merlin K3MEJ
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Doug Kitchener
> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 7:31 PM
> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] DC "drone"?
>
> Ummm... wait a second... I'm not supposed to be alarmed at the thought that
> we need to be protected from cruise missiles?
>
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> Steve Sakach <Sps3853 at covad.net>; Blair Thompson <b_thom at juno.com>
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>> And then there is this story I just dug up:
>>
>>
> http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/don-t-be-alarmed-by-the-drone-blimps-hovering-over-d-c-they-re-here-to-stop-cruise-missiles-20130726
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