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That is not all that bad of price compared to the capability.
 
TheSamurai said:
Proud to be part of the Idaho chapter of TRA and in Vern's club. I get to hear Kate frequently and I can attest to the crowd stopping what they are doing and watching a rocket with her onboard.
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I as well fly with Tripoli idaho and Kate is quite amazing.

We get the pleasure of hearing her quite often and it is a very helpful system to find rockets. There have been many cases I'm sure a rocket would have been lost without her assistance. I encourage you to check out his website9posted above) and look at all the features.
 
It's a little out of my price range and if I had one I'd be afraid to put it in my rocket because I wouldn't want to lose it. lol
 
I've seen/heard "her" at LDRS this year, really cool. Told her owner how far away from the launch site she landed on top of everything else!!
 
MWC said:
Available, and as mentioned, Paul Gagnon purchased on site @ BALLS. I spoke to Paul after purchase and he was enamored having heard Kate for the first time. It is a fantastic, top-shelf system. It uses the uBlox 7 GPS Engine running in the high dynamics mode. The velocity cutoff is for the uBlox7 is > 500 m/s. It's using 1W 900MHz ISM radios, but I don't know what model... The cross polarized yagi on the receiver works quite well as there was all-up radio downlink to 120K with said flight @ BALLS.
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It's awesome that this is using an ISM band and, as such, a HAM license is not required. I actually am licensed (General class) but I know other telemetry systems (such as the TeleMetrum) operate on AR freqs and require at least a technician license in order to purchase/operate which will put off some buyers. Despite the much higher price point of this system, it wouldn't surprise me if it eventually outsells those that require a HAM license.
 
rocketjet787 said:
Yes but Dave doesn't seem to worry about it much. ;)
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Well if you rocket cost just as much as the system you probably don't want to lose your rocket either so I guess it is a worthwhile investment.

I did talk to Vern at the monthly meeting and he is hoping to do a scaled down version at some point. Will still be a little spendy but not as much as KATE is.
 

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