The drone problem

[Archery1st]

What happend was, I was shooting skeet and this thing flew in front of the clay at just the wrong moment.

[Draco]

Like you said yourself. Google STREET. Street view from a public road or place anyone can video or take pictures. 300 yards back into someone's heavily wooded place, behind closed gates is completely different. Bob, you need me to come have a talk with him?

You don't need to come but you could send Tiff. I would need a real bruiser if it went that far.

[Draco]

Nice work, Bob. Did you tell him the zebra woman joke....just to break the ice?

I think things may have gone south if I had told the zebra woman story. He may have dropped his drone from gagging though.

[Etxbuckman]

An old 150watt linear amplifier and an old Sideband Cobra CB radio with a slider modification and key the microphone in lower sideband mode when the drone is near. He is flying on 2.4hgz but the RF from the linear amp will shoot the thing down, in other words he will lose control of the thing from the RF bleed over and it will crash somewhere. Equivalent of 450 watts of RF power will override his measley 4 watts within 1/4 mile.
I lost an RC airplane due to this one time and it was found almost 30 miles away in a man's cow pasture.
Truckers with hopped up CB's used to love doing this to us until we found out what was taking control of our airplanes.
No firearms involved

"Draconian" made this thread worth the read but I want to make sure I have this for future reference. Just in case.

[helibow]

I would be willing to bet that any video he is "capturing" would be stored on the SD card or hard drive of the camera mounted to the drone. I've seen where they can transmit back to an iphone or something but I wonder if the average guy can afford a system that transmits back and records remotely... The point is, and it might not be worth the risk, but if you shoot it down and the recorded video of you shooting it down is ON the camera ON the drone, then you dont have anything to worry about - but there is a risk that he has invested and gotten a more advanced system.

[BURTONboy]

I would be willing to bet that any video he is "capturing" would be stored on the SD card or hard drive of the camera mounted to the drone. I've seen where they can transmit back to an iphone or something but I wonder if the average guy can afford a system that transmits back and records remotely... The point is, and it might not be worth the risk, but if you shoot it down and the recorded video of you shooting it down is ON the camera ON the drone, then you dont have anything to worry about - but there is a risk that he has invested and gotten a more advanced system.

Read prior post, it would be illegal for him to obtain footage from the drone itself and keep it. Or maybe I misread.

Good thread and I hope you solved your problem. Just in case, I would make up that cb radio to screw his controls up and let that thing get lost somewhere, who cares where, just so long as he don't find it back.

[Timemachine]

Dang old Nam vets are likely to nut up any minute.

I have got by with a lot of mouthy shat because of that. I've never GONE nuts but people around me know it's possible.

[Split Arrow]

You had me at draconian.

[super_dave]

So if it is against the law to have the footage, how does Google Earth street view remain legal?

The front of your house is public if it can be seen from the street. Hints the "street view" in dracos case his can not be seen from the street.

[helibow]

Read prior post, it would be illegal for him to obtain footage from the drone itself and keep it. Or maybe I misread.

Good thread and I hope you solved your problem. Just in case, I would make up that cb radio to screw his controls up and let that thing get lost somewhere, who cares where, just so long as he don't find it back.

Whether it's illegal or not, that might not stop the drone guy from doing it. My point was that IF the he was storing video from his drone flights that the video is likely stored in the camera, on the drone... thus if he shoots it down and buries the drone... the shooter wouldnt get in trouble for shooting it down because there would be no video evidence of the shooting. On the other hand if the drone operator is really geeked out and has a system that records back to a remote hard drive then the shooter might be in trouble.

I've seen the drones that you can watch the video live from your iphone or wireless computer, but I dont know if you can record the live video on your iphone too.

I too like the CB radio idea... but blasting it out of the sky would be more fun

[Draco]

He cannot retain the images he takes as that is against the law. If he had footage of me shooting it down then he would be admitting that he is breaking the law as well. I would just say that I heard the data flowing through the air so I knew he was breaking the law.

However I am not shooting it down nor have I insinuated in any way that I would shoot it down.

[helibow]

Touche' Draco... didnt think of it from that angle. Dad always said two wrongs dont make a right... but this may challenge that haha.

And of course being a law abiding citizen and upstanding TBH member I would never believe you would commit such a heineous crime and become an outlaw drone hunter... but it would still be fun, theoretically, to watch a drone impact multiple lead pellets from unknown delivery method and spin wildly out of control crashing to the ground.

[RAGUIRREJR]

Draconian!!!!

[tvc184]

The fact that he didn't just apologize and promise not to do it again leads me to believe that he didn't get the point. He obviously thinks that he is within the law doing what he's doing and will continue to do it.

Flying a drone and running video in itself is not against the law no matter hiw much some want it to be.

[Tejas Wildlife]

Proud to call Bob my friend! Heh heh heh, Draconian, huh? Dang I wish you had recorded that conversation!!!

Wonder how long you have to cook a Drone over a pit for it to be tender? Heck, just deep fry it, EVERYTHING tastes better deep fried!!!! Give 'em heck Bob!!