Several questions here, figured I would get opinions before bothering Cris.
1) I know the resolution is supposed to be about 2.5 meters, but it seems to me when I get within about 100 ft, the direction ability from the handheld gets wonky, which normally isn't an issue, but yesterday I landed in some wheat and it was a problem (luckily the wind whipped my chute up for a second and I saw it). There anything that can be done to improve the direction finding?
2) Main question - with a longer antenna on the eggfinder itself, can the range be improved? At our field I seem to always lose it about a half mile out (some small hills, and some high tension lines running through). I have the large external antenna on the handheld portion, and always mount in the nosecone, but in almost all my rockets would have room for a longer antenna. Putting the last coordinates into google maps got me close enough to re-acquire, but just curious.
3) Can I have 2 trackers paired to the same base station? (if I set everything to the same channel - not to use at the same time, but to decrease the number of times I have to move the tracker between rockets)
1) I know the resolution is supposed to be about 2.5 meters, but it seems to me when I get within about 100 ft, the direction ability from the handheld gets wonky, which normally isn't an issue, but yesterday I landed in some wheat and it was a problem (luckily the wind whipped my chute up for a second and I saw it). There anything that can be done to improve the direction finding?
2) Main question - with a longer antenna on the eggfinder itself, can the range be improved? At our field I seem to always lose it about a half mile out (some small hills, and some high tension lines running through). I have the large external antenna on the handheld portion, and always mount in the nosecone, but in almost all my rockets would have room for a longer antenna. Putting the last coordinates into google maps got me close enough to re-acquire, but just curious.
3) Can I have 2 trackers paired to the same base station? (if I set everything to the same channel - not to use at the same time, but to decrease the number of times I have to move the tracker between rockets)