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I have been wanting to get a good quality but low cost camera drone for a couple years now. Mostly to get video of places I have been to on the ground but the added capability of aerial is intriguing. Today there are plenty of people into this to get encouragement.
A few years ago the technology was bad and the cost high. Today, the technology meets my needs and the price is way down to what I can spend.
However, it appears with increasing popularity, the law has come down on the hobby with a vengeance. Drone fliers are being arrested for often silly reasons. Yeah, I'm sure some are irresponsible but the good users are being punished along with the bad.
So, I have reservations. I don't want to buy a camera that flies if the only place I can fly it without getting arrested is in my garage. Places I would want to use it are off a cruise ship deck, in National Parks, and on public lands. Also practice and develop skill in my own back yard. I have no interest in spying on my neighbors, flying low over private property, or chasing cars down the street. But I don't want to get arrested for possibly disturbing the flight path of a flock of birds because some environmentalist thinks I harassed wildlife flying my drone.
So that is my conundrum- should I invest in a drone or not?
This is the one that meets all my needs and has excellent reviews:
http://store.dji.com/product/mavic-...fy_S2j_xtei0j--DD9BHzAaAkgg8P8HAQ#/?_k=7sv9s8
A few years ago the technology was bad and the cost high. Today, the technology meets my needs and the price is way down to what I can spend.
However, it appears with increasing popularity, the law has come down on the hobby with a vengeance. Drone fliers are being arrested for often silly reasons. Yeah, I'm sure some are irresponsible but the good users are being punished along with the bad.
So, I have reservations. I don't want to buy a camera that flies if the only place I can fly it without getting arrested is in my garage. Places I would want to use it are off a cruise ship deck, in National Parks, and on public lands. Also practice and develop skill in my own back yard. I have no interest in spying on my neighbors, flying low over private property, or chasing cars down the street. But I don't want to get arrested for possibly disturbing the flight path of a flock of birds because some environmentalist thinks I harassed wildlife flying my drone.
So that is my conundrum- should I invest in a drone or not?
This is the one that meets all my needs and has excellent reviews:
http://store.dji.com/product/mavic-...fy_S2j_xtei0j--DD9BHzAaAkgg8P8HAQ#/?_k=7sv9s8
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I've been reading up on the law and know the amateur restriction, both from myths and actual reading the regs. I am wondering, though if the law restricts end use or whether you do work for hire. I know in some cases as long as I'm not paid, commercial work for hire does not apply but in the case of the FAA, not sure. The wording was quite vague. There are agencies who buy amateur drone video and they resell it.
Locally there are over a dozen video production companies using drones for their video assignments and none of them are commercial pilots. I know these guys. They are very good but not exactly "legal"
But according to the experts, in August 2016, the FAA clarified the rules a bit and now allow you to get licensed as a "professional drone photographer" under Part 107 of the rules. You have to take a simple written test on knowledge of maps and rules and regulations, some compare to a driver's learner's permit in complexity. So a few hours of study and you can pass the test. Probably easier than a concealed weapons license. But they charge $150 for the exam and license. So, likely, Scott, your understanding may be dated now.
Personally, I am not really excited about going back into the video production business from my fun in retirement. I don't need the money and don't need the recognition in this area. 22 years of it and I just like playing with what I want to, when I want to, and not having to meet deadlines.
BTW- those who have been caught violating illegal air space, have been fined $250 which seems to be quite common fine. These have been all from complaints of private land owners who had their privacy invaded or other well known air space violations, like flying over a military base or airport. It isn't that there is an enforcement division in the FAA that is out looking to fine drone pilots for $250 a pop.
I might have said before my biggest disappointment is no drones in National Parks and some State Parks. That greatly limited my amateur use, such as the Grand Canyon and a few other parks.
Boy, are there a lot of myths and scams out there on these drones. FAA calls drones, UAS or Unmanned Aircraft System
I spent lots of time this morning trying to understand about this "Register your Drone" requirement.
The whole "Register your Drone" is a big myth. Unless you are registering to fly it for commercial purposes, you don't register your drone. You register as a drone pilot.
Commercial drone pilot is if you fly for hire or sell your photography from a drone for compensation.
So what you have to do is register as a drone pilot if you fly a drone that is over 250 grams and less than 55 pounds. This costs $5. There is no information on your drone you need to send to the FAA. Just personal information. Then you put your Drone pilot's number on your drone and carry your certificate with you and produce it if asked by law enforcement. That's it for the hobbyist license. For commercial use, it is more involved, studying and testing. I downloaded the 87 page study guide and everything there is good to know, such as how to read an FAA restricted airspace map, weather, radio control technical, safety, and FAA regulations. I plan to study that guide but haven't decided whether to get the commercial license or not. It doesn't seem to be a big deal to learn to pass the test from glancing through it this morning. But first things first. I have to build skill in flying and the video shooting with it before that next step.
There is no watermark per se. The meta data may do that but as I said, registering the drone with the FAA is a myth unless you are a commercial licensed UAS pilot. As a hobbyist, you could own a dozen drones and none of them would be registered with the FAA so even if they did have meta data, there would be no way for the FAA to trace that radio control signal back to an owner or even a licensed hobbyist. But they could trace the RC signal back to the remote controller transmitter.
I have software here that can list all the metadata in a video file, strip out the meta data, and add new data back in.
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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On Tuesday, I recorded the first episodes of the new season's NCIS shows on CBS (Dish provided, not OTA). The new New York series and Origins will both do Auto Skip, but the original, now season 24 does not. What's stranger, when I do a search for NCIS, Origins and New York show the current recording and the next episode it will record, but the original show only shows the current recording and some other channel showing the very first episode of season one. It makes no sense. When I set up the timers, I was able to use search for Origins and New York, but for the original, I had to scroll ahead in the guide until last Tuesday when the show was airing. Then set the timer from there. You can see its timer type is DVR where the other two are Seek. What am I missing?
Thanks!
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I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
As I said above, and, FWIW, I run Win11 Pro and Arch on separate 250 GB NVME drives, using F8 to select which I boot to, with a 1TB SSD for storage, accessible to both OSs and a third formatted Nvme I want to use to learn Kali. It was much faster to setup Arch than it was to strip down Windows. Windows still takes much longer to boot.
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Hard getting used to the new younger Gibbs, Mark Harmons son had the right look but I understand he didn't want the role.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
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Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?
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Starting a thread klang !
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
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One episode into season 4 that dropped today...
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This thread is a place to discuss the 4K events that appear on channel 540. We are getting, at this point, one college football game a week. Let's hope there is more coming.
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Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
As I recall you have the Flex package. Do you sub to multisport? -02 is FS1 and -03 is ESPN. -01 is Fox so you would get that if you sub to locals.Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.