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While I'm VERY excited to have started work on my OSCARII, I'm not excited for the real world that it may or may not be allowed to run in. First is the 75mHz spectrum that is supposed to be protected, but here it isn't since I'm getting a lot of RFI and the FCC just blew off another of my complaints for cross spectrum pollution. Not that I expect much out of them since when I worked at at TV station it took them 6 months to resolve a RFI problem with a broadcaster 3 miles away who's tower was crossing over to our licensed frequencies.
The other is 'terrorism.' 20 years ago you could keep a chemistry set and have a chem lab and nobody would care. Even kids were encouraged to experience science to give them a sense of what they wanted to be. Now we have teens being arrested for domestic terrorism for what the ATF described as 'a well stocked and well maintained lab in a safe environment.' I doubt I will ever be able to take a sub to a gathering farther away then 8-10 hours away because the TSA would so nail me for having a IED-not that I'd ever trust the baggage handlers with a sub in the first place. Whatever happened to hobbies and fun? Why are people who attempt to do hobbies treated as criminals now? My wife flies R/C planes. Not drones, planes. We have a trainer Cub and a good size Beaver that's just under the R/C flier's insurance guidelines and FCC's max weight. Now here is where is gets annoying-there are NO LAWS in place that say she can't fly at the park, by our complex, at the one down the street, or at the one where the subs will probably be going. In practice however, others we know have been told and threatened by the police for a 'unwritten' law that states R/C planes and cars are banned in public parks. I'm not that old (well if almost 30 isn't that old) and I'm not seeing a lot of people younger then me taking up hobbies, but whenever the Beaver and destroyers come out EVERYONE is beyond interested and amazed. Nobody wants to help construct them, but they are so amazed at the results.
I guess I'm just worried but mostly confused now.
The other is 'terrorism.' 20 years ago you could keep a chemistry set and have a chem lab and nobody would care. Even kids were encouraged to experience science to give them a sense of what they wanted to be. Now we have teens being arrested for domestic terrorism for what the ATF described as 'a well stocked and well maintained lab in a safe environment.' I doubt I will ever be able to take a sub to a gathering farther away then 8-10 hours away because the TSA would so nail me for having a IED-not that I'd ever trust the baggage handlers with a sub in the first place. Whatever happened to hobbies and fun? Why are people who attempt to do hobbies treated as criminals now? My wife flies R/C planes. Not drones, planes. We have a trainer Cub and a good size Beaver that's just under the R/C flier's insurance guidelines and FCC's max weight. Now here is where is gets annoying-there are NO LAWS in place that say she can't fly at the park, by our complex, at the one down the street, or at the one where the subs will probably be going. In practice however, others we know have been told and threatened by the police for a 'unwritten' law that states R/C planes and cars are banned in public parks. I'm not that old (well if almost 30 isn't that old) and I'm not seeing a lot of people younger then me taking up hobbies, but whenever the Beaver and destroyers come out EVERYONE is beyond interested and amazed. Nobody wants to help construct them, but they are so amazed at the results.
I guess I'm just worried but mostly confused now.
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