Hi everone. I have due to various reasons not been able to pursue the hobby since my friends at the NW easter meet set up my drone. Today was the last straw, I intended to make an effort and go out this afternoon, weather foecast rain. Thought I could get some time before the rain went out only to be met with strong winds. All this on top of problems due to my age {81yrs} So the big decision selling up and moving on to ham radio. I was told at the meet that I have a good drone that I stole at the price I paid so it will be offered to GADC members first. Will be advertised shortly. Regards to all Charlie.
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Sorry to hear leaving the hobby so soon… I too find the wind frustrating, last years big meet was windy as heck (though the FPV drones don’t suffer like the camera drones do so much), was more the planes it ruins!
Between rain and wind, had so much of my limited availability ruined last year I too have thought… sod it a couple of times. Hopefully someone takes you up on the drone and it finds a good home!
Thanks for reply. gunja99 Another problem is that a nerve problem in my left arm and hands seems to be going worse. Got to say though this club and members are fantastic. Will probs keep on site for the interesting content. I think whoever buys the drone will be happy with it.
Hi Charlie, I am sorry to hear you are going to sell the drone, watching your face when you first flew it was priceless and you seem to enjoy it
It made my day seeing it in the air
Why don’t you wait a bit longer, the better weather is coming and longer days make for more flying opportunities
If you sell it now or in a few months you will get the same for it
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Wayne the time I spent with you and the lads was fantastic and you made me really happy. If you remember you had to put my phone in the controller for me due to my nerve problem in my left hand, that problem seems to have gone worse in the last few days. I will allways remember the kind ness shown to me on that day best regards Charlie.
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Hi mate
I’ve got essential tremors in both my hands, pretty bad in the right and just there in the left (you should see me eating peas or soup!). As anybody on here will tell you, it doesn’t stop me, nor does a bit of wind. In the high winds at last years Big Meet, I’d got my Mini 2, Air 2S and Phantom 4 Pro in the air and enjoyed every minute, even taught Nalin how to fly! Wait a couple of weeks, get it up (oooh matron) and enjoy it, we’re all in the same boat, but it’s UK, and you should know at your age that the weather does things like that. Enjoy!
John
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Sorry to hear that Charlie @CeeGee1 as Wayne @SparkyFPV said seeing your face light up was priceless.
You live in a stunning place so you could have got some fantastic shots.
Like Wayne said if you do go ahead and sell you will get your money back.
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Thanks Steve you and Wayne are two of the best.
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CeeGee . Stick with it dont sell up The weather will change. I’m 83 and still enjoying flying both my drones and my fixed wing models. I’m not as skillful or as sharp as some of my younger friends but its not a competition.
I’m off to Alaska on holiday in July on board Queen Elizabeth but I will not have enough room in my luggage to take any of my “toys” .
Keep flying
Flying Shroppie
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Hi, where in the country are you located? If u need help with it or a Flying buddy I’m Manchester based… Its horrible when things don’t happen, I came back from Cardigan Bay with some stunning footage on the first day I was there… For 5 days and the drive home rain and wind… So frustrating… I’m thinking about the summer planning some trips now…
This is quite disheartening to read. However I do empathise with your situation, Charlie. I went completely the other way when I was diagnosed with a degenerative condition, I gave up amateur radio in favour of pursuing drones and RC modelling in general. I found flying to be very therapeutic and it helped with the severe chronic pain associated with my condition.
I would urge you to stick with it, you will see improvement. It will also get you out and about, instead of sitting indoors all day on a 40m net, exchanging prescription details and moaning about the youth of today. That being said I’ve been unable to leave the house since last September and so I’ve dug out some of my old radio gear. Being the antisocial personality that I am I have no wish to converse with other radio hams (there’s only so many weather reports and equipment rundowns that one can tolerate) so I hunt out weird signals to analyse and demodulate. And yes, il say it again, I don’t get invited to parties either.
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Hi Nidge thanks for reply. I am going the other way, I am looking to get foundation licence for ham radio and interested in electronics. By strange signals do you mean UFO? When I get my ticket we will have to have a chat. best regards Charlie. .
In my previous life (before retirement) one of the many hats I wore were as a Signals and Protocols Analyst, and I suppose old habits are still strong.
I obtained my amateur radio license when I was a teenager, and back then the hobby was very different to what it is today. The emphasis appears, to me at least, not on the science but on which LED festooned ghetto radio you use to repeat your weather reports and medical history with, infinitum. I used to enjoy Morse Code but I started noticing that there was a trend for some folk to use automatic readers, which is fine for the “rubber stamp” type of contact, but as soon as you started to deviate from this format the op at the other end would lose it as they couldn’t use their ears to decode the code.
Best of luck with your foundation, you’ll probably find it no harder than the online test you did to get your Drone Operator ID.
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What a touching post. Here’s wishing you the very best and any new hobby you take up may be equally as entertaining.
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Well it looks like I will have to keep it. Sold my Mavic yesterday, but come to unbind could not find the way to do it neither on go 4 or my account so refused to sell to buyer. Did enjoy the demo flight though. 
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Excellent news in a way, hopefully we can encourage you to persevere and get out flying, especially as the weather is brilliant for flying today.
I know you wanted to put the money to ham radio. But who wants to be stuck inside when the sun is shining.
Im sat at my mother in laws waiting in for someone to collect something, so im sat in the garden fling the mini 3.
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I don’t think there is a need to remove it from your DJI account mate, I certainly didn’t remove my Mavic 2 Pro from any account when I sold it, nor my Air 2, and I’ve just sold a Phantom 4 (also on Go 4) and that didn’t need removing either.
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The generation of DJI drones that use GO3 and GO4 do not support account-binding, so there is nothing to unbind 
Account binding was introduced with the first DJI Mavic Mini and the DJI Fly app.
Ah well had no offers on my updated advert no its going on facebook marketplace for whatever price. shame nobody on here wanted it its a really good drone.
Unfortunately, if I’d offered all I could currently afford, it would have been a bit of an insult.