This might be a neat alternative at least in some areas:
http://tracklog.streckenflug.ch/ [1]
Ulrich Stauss
On Tue 09/06/09 07:01 , "Ross McLean" [email protected] sent:
When we used the SPOT at Benalla during the Multi Class Nationals we
found if they weren’t mounted flat they did not work reliably. If,
for example you clipped the SPOT onto your parachute harness,
effectively mounting it vertically, then the result was very
unreliable. It wouldn’t “see” the satellite and didn’t get the
signal out and so there was no position report.
ROSS
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TO: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
SUBJECT: Re: [Aus-soaring] My "Spot" did not work in Sydney
From what I gather, the cost of the spot tracker relates to the
Iridium-based tracker systems like the Ka-6 relates to the cost of an
AS-G29. One would hope the latter in each case has some added benefit.
My spot tracker lost the last few position reports one day and
appeared on the website that I did not land where I had launched.
Since then I have always sent an OK message from the landing field.
For some obscure reason that has always gone through.
Jim
Links:
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[1] http://tracklog.streckenflug.ch/
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