I am in my fifties.....I flew RC plains a lot in my youth, my brother still flies rockets. All these "sports" have government rules and regs on where you can do these activities. Most clubs contact authorities when an event is supposed to take place. All this time I have never had an issue with these activities.
Stick a camera on something.....the stupid factor goes way up. I was at a music festival a couple years back. I noticed some guy getting really irate with the security. They were preventing him to use his drone. He didn't appreciate it was private property. He didn't appreciate it was a "no cameras event". He obviously didn't contact anyone with his intentions. He certainly didn't notify anyone there that a drone could fall on their head.
To repeat, just because you can afford one does not mean you have the skills to properly use the device and are willing to take responsibility for dealing with the device. How many people take out public liability insurance? With no required competency tests, owning one seems to be the only requirement to use one.
Something people may not know. Radio frequencies have two users....licensed operators and unlicensed operators.
An example of this is the 2.4 ghz band that cordless phones and wifi devices use. All those access points and cordless phones are unlicensed. HAM operators are licenced owners of this band. As a license holder, I can legally prevent any unlicensed user from interfering with my activities on that band. Furthermore, if my activities interfere with consumer wifi....to bad for them. The bad belongs to HAMs.
The problem is these drones can get locked up easily when the control freq (whatever it is) gets overtaken by the licensed user of that band. Drone comes down, out of control of the operator.
How many drone operators know these aspects of their devices? As a HAM radio operator I had to learn these things and take a test. If I were a real pilot, there would be testable competency I would need to complete.
Engineers can do many wonderful things. It may make it easy.....but you can't fix stupid.
Yes, and that Morse code is so important to safely operate that radio. Tests, indeed.
As alluded in my previous response, a required license involving some "educational testing" would go a long way to prevent or minimize that problem. privacy issues could easily be dealt with by a loss of license.
No longer required.....for quite some time.
I'm not sure if this should go here or in an equipment section.
Has anyone here tried drone photography? What did you think of it?
Yes, and that Morse code is so important to safely operate that radio. Tests, indeed.
I guess I can't argue with that. BUT... euthanization, as some mentioned earlier, is going a bit too far, don't ya' think?
I'm not sure if this should go here or in an equipment section.
Has anyone here tried drone photography? What did you think of it?
in 2005 the UN removed the Morse code requirement for amateur licenses. In 2008 the FCC bought the US in line with that by removing the Morse Code requirement for amateur licenses.
I have an Amateur Extra license.
I only use the 2 meter band when I am offroading with a group from San Diego. It is so much clearer than CB. I did not need more than the Technician license but since I am an electrical engineer among other things it was not a big deal to get the Amateur Extra license and the vanity call sign.
I think we should illegalize all ATVs. People can drive those right up to our private country cabins and peep in our windows. Also, those things can crash and start fires with all that gasoline in their tanks. Darned dangerous things, those ATVs... evil... just plain evil.
Yeah, but how do we keep Texans from proliferating? Maybe time to get that border fence built, north of Texas, of course!
I'm just trying to figure out what "potography" is?
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