Actually I came up with a good application for one of these cameras and have a mini-project started.
I'll be meeting with the guy who set up the Bandon webcam.
A live Bandon Oregon "Scan-Cam" The Coast Guard base in Coos Bay looks at this cam when they have to send a boat to Bandon
(and from late May till mid Sept they station a 47' boat full time.)
My "idea" is to get one of these cameras in the tower overlooking the Coos Bay entrance.
It would not replace the tower watch,
but it would allow the OOD etc to view the bar entrance from their desk at any given time.
Once I get this project going I'll put a page on the internet with links to both cams.
Then boaters and the Coast Guard will be able to see the real time bar conditions.
I protect my family with a Beretta and a Glock. I don't like video. The cops will just have to take my word on how the creep died while invading my home.
This is just plain culpable neglegence on the part of both the manufacturer and the FCC. They could easily have used a spread spectrum transceiver system that would in no way be so easy to observe. There is a budding lawsuit here. Were I an investor in such companies I would get out now.