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Just seen an article saying that the majority of the drone sightings may have been of police equipment Edit: Back home now and the link to the story Gatwick Airport drone sightings may have been of police equipment, chief constable admits

First, That was no specialised camera, it was a beta test I had from JVC in 2001, lots of stuck pixels etc. and still testing and tweaking the firmware in it, it was their higher end surveillance camera and was released to the market in 2002, and in 2004 an updated version was released. JVC...

The fully functional CCTV cameras generally will not point much above the horizon, fixed cameras are looking at one thing in particular and usually that is not sky. I have fitted cameras that can identify a person at a mile away, fitted with a IR laser for illumination at night but that is not...

May not be the ones that did the dirty deed though. Paul Gait & Elaine Kirk: Couple Arrested in Gatwick Drone Attack | Heavy.com

For me I have to turn on the aircraft first, then the controller and then plug in the tablet then run the DJI Go app then it will connect, The DJI Go can be running before you plug it in but it does not connect every time. I also make sure I have force closed all apps that are not needed. Edit...

I have been using an 10.1" Archos 101b Oxygen for the past year or so, I would say it is at the bottom edge of running Go4, it is only a 1.3GHz Quad core with 2GB ram and 32GB of onboard storage, it has no GSM function but does have WiFi and Bluetooth, there were some incompatibilities at the...

African or European?

Last night I got 100meters before I got a warning that the signal was poor, but I've always suffered from poor performance around my house, and lots of times I don't even get that far. If I move a couple of miles west from my house the problem is gone and I can fly to my heart is content... as...

Long been the case, and not surprised at thieves using drones to case the joint. I was involved with Farm Watch in the UK, I was in the security industry and my family also had a farm. We were putting in a lot of camera systems for both protecting the machinery as well as covering the livestock...

Using an Archos Oxygen 101b 10.1" tablet. It has no sim or GSM connection but it does have GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth, as long as I don't cache the video on the tablet then it works fine, cost €130 from a local discount electrical store.

Drones were still the purview of the military when I was last working, man I could have made great use out of them at work! Super Dave's post reminded me of all the concerts I worked at, setting up microwave and laser links to beam CCTV video back to the police/security command posts at events...

I used a 12kVA genset in one of my trucks to keep the cameras running, the one downside is that a lot of gensets are made for the American market and produce a 60Hz output, where I needed a 50Hz output for UK/Europe as most of the 240V ac cameras/VCRs use the mains frequency for locking the...

Meta4 is right, I've been using GPS since the early 90s, even with a survey capable differential GPS in P mode its accuracy in the vertical is way below what you could achieve on the horizontal. Just looking at a picture I took 2 months ago and the EXIF data gives me a height of 238m or 782ft...

Been busy, family matters, but now back to a bit of flying, Downloaded the Assistant 2 again today and no problems, installed, runs and no alerts.

Apart from the colour and a different spec camera it looks the same as my Syma drone, in flight ready condition it weighs in at 800g (28oz) and the battery lasts around 7 - 8 minutes, controller range is about 150m or so, the video feed cuts out at under 100m and they are prone to fly away with...