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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by KirinDave on Thursday September 27, 2018 @05:28PM (#18088898)
It's more like quadruple illegal.

The thing is, these laws are really, really hard to enforce at the federal level and in general municipal and state governments already do an efficient job (and are happy to collect the fines from rich folks with a hobby) executing on local laws.

It's really quite unnecessary.

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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by wbl on Friday September 28, 2018 @04:28AM (#18091821)
Foxhunt the control signal.
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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by KirinDave on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:35PM (#18096369)
I don't use or scout military hardware but if I were planning to use fpv quadcopters for military use the first thing I'd do is get spread spectrum control hardware.
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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by yial on Saturday September 29, 2018 @06:16AM (#18099614)
Most RC anymore used frequency hopping spread spectrum for control. Different brands use different amounts of frequencies they hop between. Though all still in the 2.4, 5.8, or different band. A very select few use two different wavelengths at once. (Dragonlink, crossfire)
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