My plan for having a Tracker in the booster came with a Labor Day sale TRS. So I get deployment and tracking. This is going in my 3-inch scratch build. Kind of like a Quantum Leap II.
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The TRS is a dynamite system.
Stuck it in a 38mm LOC cardboard tubed, 5ply plywood finned project where I did a 1/3rd, 2/3rds and full span fin can lamination with 2oz. fiberglass cloth. Cut 12 pieces of cloth. I freaking did a stupid thing and
used a dirty rail that bound the Mayhem rail guide. The rocket blasted right through it, the rail guide was destroyed, rocket hit 850mph and 8,697 feet on a J350. I lost a few paint chips as the right photo shows.
Used a single break and a PrairieTwister cutter to open the main.
I never saw the rocket after the button was pushed. GPS Rocket Locator kept tabs but at the time GPSRL didn't cache maps for offline use and I had the cajones to use the program bare. Had the two "spots" and a line.
Rocket landed 1.66 miles away and was in fine shape when I got to it. I did a test with a 900Mhz yagi for the recovery and the yagi certainly increased the ground footprint out in the open. I walked toward the last
known position with the yagi and when I started getting the beeping back I disconnected it and put the vertical dipole back on. (same antenna shown on the TRS in the pictures above) The signal disappeared.
It had a good satellite lock while on the ground and it was out in the open. I still had to get pretty close to finally visually see it. Pretty nice altitude for the venerable J350 in a cardboard rocket. Man that fiberglass lamination
is like really strong! I was pleasantly surprised. Can't wait to fly it again. Kurt