I've had that experience 5 times with another APRS tracker. Small rocket
disappears into the ether. Try to look in sky during the flight where it's
supposed to be based on tracker information displayed on the map and see
absolutely nothing. (Small rocket.) Can tell by incoming altitude display that
the events probably occurred and go to where the icon is on the map and rocket
is lying there with it's apogee/main deployed as they were supposed to.
If not for the tracker, the rocket likely would have been lost.
Can't wait to try my Tele-GPS. The great thing about it is if one has APRS
equipment can use that for basic APRS tracking or as a backup to the Tele-BT.
Stuck the Tele-BT on myArrow 7 element antenna and man that is a really nice
two handed tracking solution. Kurt Savegnago
From: Chris Attebery <[email protected]>
To: Altus Metrum <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [altusmetrum] AltosDroid
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
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