Re: gEDA-user: OT: Video camera hack

[Kenneth Long <kelong_2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about a flying WiFi Access Point?
that happens to be streaming MPEG4 over IP?

The transmission of Video (NTSC) is a function of FCC
regulations for frequency/wattage allowed, no?

I'm not aware of any FAA regulations limiting video
transmission in hobby R/C plans, not that there are
none.




--- Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Nov 15, 2005, at 7:00 PM, Syed Faisal Akber
> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the Canadaian and probably the
> American governments
> > classify this as UAV (Unmanned Arial Vehicles) and
> thus it becomes 
> > illegal
> > for us to do.  You can put a camera on a model
> plane but point it 
> > towards
> > the ground not forward and not use it to fly
> either.  This was told to 
> > me
> > by a friend of mine who happens to be an Industry
> Canada inspector.
> 
>    Well I don't know much about Canada, but in the
> US you can bet on it. 
>   This government is unbelievably paranoid. 
> Frankly, it makes me want 
> to throw up.  But that's a rant for another day. =)
> 
>               -Dave
> 
> --
> Dave McGuire, Cape Coral, FL
> "Most are engaged in business the greater part of
> their lives, because 
> the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not
> discovered any continuous 
> employment for man's nobler faculties."  - Henry
> David Thoreau
> 
> 



		
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