Chris,
That would work too. It just that when you are walking through the
desert, stepping over squirrel holes, and keeping an eye out for rattle
snakes a tenth of a mile seems like a long time between distance
updates. If you are driving, the Garmin method would be fine.
Agree that it is really nice to have the phone walk me right to the
rocket.
Terry
On 10/28/2015 10:40 AM, Chris Attebery wrote:
Why not switch from miles to feet once you are under 1/10th of a mile?
That's what my Garmin does.
BTW: I used the AltosDroid software for the first time last week. The
software itself met my expectations. I was a little surprised that it
didn't scan for active units and that I had to pick a channel and know
the call sign of the unit I wanted to monitor(maybe I just didn't see
the right option though). I was disappointed that my tablet couldn't
seem to get a GPS lock(not AltosDroid's fault) so I had to transfer
the coordinates to my Garmin. I never saw the rocket after apogee. It
landed about 1/2 mile away, but without the TM I wouldn't have had a
clue where to start looking. With the GPS coordinates we drove right
to it a couple minutes after it landed.
Chris
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Keith Packard <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
W7AMI <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> writes:
> Would it be possible to change the way distance is reported in
> AltosDroid? Currently it reports in Meters for the Metric
system and
> Miles in Imperial units. Tenths of a mile is a fairly large
unit so
> there is quite a bit of ambiguity as to how far it is to the
rocket when
> recovering it. Would it be possible to have the units
automatically
> switch from Miles/Meters when the distance to the rocket is less
than
> half a mile or 1 km?
Yeah, I got started trying that a few months ago and didn't get it
finished. I've added a ticket to our bug system to encourage me to
finish this up.
--
-keith
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