FastAsleep
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After months of researching gps units that folks use to track their rockets and reading many of the posts on TRF, I have not see anyone that has mounted one on the outside of the airframe. The units that would be most suited for this are the dog collar type (legality notwithstanding) in that they are fairly durable and readily available.
The issues I have with several of my rockets are:
1. They were not originally built with a payload section in mind.
2. There is no room in the nose cone.
3. The av-bay is too close to the nose cone.
By attaching an external gps unit low on the fincan it would hopefully lessen any interference with internal threaded rods and move the unit a safe distance away from the av-bay electronics. For sub-sonic flights e-tape would be sufficient and though it might be ugly, an ugly rocket is better than one you never see again.
Miles
The issues I have with several of my rockets are:
1. They were not originally built with a payload section in mind.
2. There is no room in the nose cone.
3. The av-bay is too close to the nose cone.
By attaching an external gps unit low on the fincan it would hopefully lessen any interference with internal threaded rods and move the unit a safe distance away from the av-bay electronics. For sub-sonic flights e-tape would be sufficient and though it might be ugly, an ugly rocket is better than one you never see again.
Miles