SquidRID

[Burkeomatic]

github.com/flyandi/squidrid

Anyone interested? Basically a hackable RID device, you can make it transmit whatever signal you want, or hook up a GPS and run someone elses serial number..... lol. 

Did the FAA not this coming from a mile away? 

Either way, the ESP32 boards are 3 for $17 on Amazon. It might be funny to drop one on "Pest mode" somewhere it would aggravate the FAA. 

[ratcheeroo]

Here's another take on a downside. RID allows anyone to locate where you are at, so who is to stop some criminal element to locating where you are at and then coming to rip off your gear, or worse. There are so many flaws with RID its ridiculous but the reality is, I hate to say, its here to stay for all of us flaws and all. What it evolves into is the only thing that we as hobbyists will have any kind of input on. The train to stopping RID left the station a few years ago and just chugged past us before anybody realized what was really happening. The AMA, FTCA and the other coalitions and their counterparts worldwide put too much trust in govt. thinking that their associations would be spared the brunt of regulation and that their input was actually being considered. For me here in Canada there is actually no upside to belonging to a club or organization and non-compliance is the option that works for my situation until an acceptable alternative presents itself that presents no risk to me at any level. I don't think that any of us should expect or accept anything less than that. How do we get there? Not sure myself.

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Jul 12, 2023 9:13:20 GMT ratcheeroo said:

Here's another take on a downside. RID allows anyone to locate where you are at, so who is to stop some criminal element to locating where you are at and then coming to rip off your gear, or worse. There are so many flaws with RID its ridiculous but the reality is, I hate to say, its here to stay for all of us flaws and all. What it evolves into is the only thing that we as hobbyists will have any kind of input on. The train to stopping RID left the station a few years ago and just chugged past us before anybody realized what was really happening. The AMA, FTCA and the other coalitions and their counterparts worldwide put too much trust in govt. thinking that their associations would be spared the brunt of regulation and that their input was actually being considered. For me here in Canada there is actually no upside to belonging to a club or organization and non-compliance is the option that works for my situation until an acceptable alternative presents itself that presents no risk to me at any level. I don't think that any of us should expect or accept anything less than that. How do we get there? Not sure myself.

There is always an outside chance the federal government realizes they messed out. Maybe less so with the communist crap you have to deal with, but it can happen. 

Prohibition was repealed, and and in 2015, after sticking to their guns finally accepted the science that dietary cholesterol does not infact jet straight into your arteries, so there may be hope... slim, but none. 

I figure they have three options;

1. Figure out it doesn't work nearly as intended, and clamp down harder, way harder. 

2. Realize it does nothing, it is a waste of the FAA's time, the FAA tells congress, and congress adjusts fire. <-------- Least likely. 

3. Seeing it doesn't work, allow the completely broken system to remain, mandate that all RTF aircraft have RID, and let everyone else kind of fall by the wayside, completely leaving the door open for inequitable enforcement of the law, make an example out of some poor schmuck every couple of years to keep the lemmings in line, but leaves 99.9% of people unaffected. 

I think if enough people did idiotic stuff, like spoofing RID, sticking the module on our (and other people's) cars and in random public places then the police and karens would eventually give up too. I think "Trolling and disrupting" the system would be extremely effective. If enough people regularly saturated the airwaves with fake drone signatures, it would be the same as having no RID. 

Oh, and how did we get here? Shitheads that say stuff like this. 

Since we're only flying planes and helis VLOS, we don't care how invasive RID becomes for the drone side since that's where the culprits exist.

[ratcheeroo]

I anticipate a mix of point 1 and 3 and yea shitheads like that are totally the reason for the state of things. Trolling and disrupting ? Never thought of that LMAO! yep I bet that would be a very effective method to make a point, but there's still gonna be the shitheads. I nominate you to lead the revolution. I need to look at this Squid thing a little closer, you're onto something.