It's grass fire season.

[KC9ECI]

Worked a small fire on Thursday. Us, 2 mutual aid departments, LEO for traffic control, WI-DNR and spotter aircraft. Used my drone for this aftermath photo.

[PA5COR]

Nice piccie.
Only problems with the grass here is i have to mow it every week now, rain today so i can "see"it growing....

[KC9ECI]

I wish we had some rain. We hit red flag conditions today. Fire danger is crazy high. Had another grass fire last evening, en route back to quarters our brush truck stopped to notify two places of the burn ban. Before we got back to the station we were dispatched to a van on fire in a garage. I'm just kind of laying low at the moment and hoping for the best.

[KG4CGC]

Those drones are useful tools.

[suddenseer]

I am having a small grass fire as well. 15714

[KC9ECI]

Yeah, that's a better kind of grass fire. Not my thing, but to each their own.

This is near where I grew up and a bit north of my current location and easily close enough that we could be requested for manpower/apparatus. My niece lives close enough to have been evacuated. http://www.weau.com/content/news/Warm-dry-windy-weather-sparking-wildfires-across-Wisconsin-481192281.html

[K4PIH]

Don't Bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to me

[N8YX]

Those drones are useful tools.
Get a setup equipped with a release hook and use it to loft a leader line waaayyy into the trees, then pull the main line up with it - followed by your wire antenna.

One such aircraft is on my short list to buy.

[suddenseer]

Don't Bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to meI will gladly share my neuropathy damaged body medicine with you if you need it.

[suddenseer]

There are some stunning 4K videos from drones on You Tube, and Daily Motion. Streaming is the only way I can enjoy a 4K ultra picture, for now. It does not seem that long ago that 1080i was the cutting edge, next will be 8K, 16K projected holograms? I am the dirty old guy who would use that ultra cool technology to get 4K vids of certain individuals who thought their 1/2 mile long driveway, and tree lined outdoor pool and nude sunbathing. The more reactionary ultra up tight they are publicly, the more public platforms the videos would be released on. No $ changing hands. Aint I a stinker?


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[suddenseer]

I remember a dry summer when I was about 8 years old. There was a field fire, that the wind spread to acres of drying corn. Maybe a 66% yield if lucky kind of dry. The scorched, burning corn managed to hop across a 2 lane country road that we lived on to a spring wheat field. I vividly remember how good the smoke smelled like. It had the olfactory sensation of baking bread, and cooking hillbilly skillet corn in the kitchen. It reminded me of grammas kitchen on Sunday afternoon. The elements for the fire where there. It was very windy to blow the glowing embers around. I was so afraid that the flames would get the house, but the dried out vegetation burned out so quickly.

[PA5COR]

I just keep mowing the effing lawn here, for a week we have 25C and sun, befoe that a bit of rain, so it just sprouts up like an idiot.
(looking for the canister fuel and matches...)
:wtf:

[KC9ECI]

rain here the last two days. Things are greening up nicely. Little bit of rain right now. Feels like a good time for a sandwich and a Leinenkugel's Grapefruit Shandy.

Been doing a little flying with my drone the last week or so.

[K7SGJ]

If you need to test that thing under high heat conditions, and see how it does with some huge wild fires, I will be glad to be your south west testing platform.

[PA5COR]

Main telly is since a year the UHD 4K philips telly, and with satellite reception lots of nice 4 K channels after i bought the new sat receiver with 4 K...
Using the additional output of the I 7 lappie i can also watch 4 K on the net or direct through the telly ( netflix Google play films, direct browsing on the net) so i'm set.
Could not imagine what 8 or 16 K would add, piccie with 4 K and improved contrast is exccellent and you need to sit with your nose pressed to the screen for 8 or 16K to see the difference.

As almost 66 years old i'm impressed how much telly's improved from the tube sets running 900 watts for a dinky 66 cm's piccie to now 43/55/65 screens running superior piccies for 70 - 100 watts use.
Even my laptop is full HD 17"
Dumping the old plasma 43" immediately dropped my electricity use to 2500 KW on yearly use here, it did run 350 watts, the new Philips 43" uses less as 70 watts.
even the new sat receiver uses much less energy as the old one.

Last thing to be replaced is the old Zanussi washing machine that is now 15 years old, but hey, it still works fine....;)