Normally I'd directly e-mail the always-helpful Cris at Eggtimer. However, in this case, I think maybe I need the opinion of somebody who's struggled with these as well. Maybe somebody can say "Hey, I made that mistake too, here's what you do!".
Short story is two of us in the club have Eggfinder systems. Standard and Mini transmitters, both of us with LCD's with GPS. Everything appears to be functioning ok. We get coordinates of the rocket, and it appears we have good communication between the systems. Frequencies are all working fine, and I can see traffic on the radio modules. But when it comes to actually finding the rockets we are just completely confused. Completely unable to find anything at our last launch with the system. Essentially we just don't see any kind of updates on the LCD at all as we are walking along. All the distance, heading, track.... none of it updates as we move closer to the area of the rocket.
It's almost acting as if the LCD unit doesn't have any GPS reception, even though we're getting double-beeps saying both GPS have data, and the display says 0 seconds since the last update on both screens (rocket and LCD).
So, what might we be doing wrong?
-Hans
Short story is two of us in the club have Eggfinder systems. Standard and Mini transmitters, both of us with LCD's with GPS. Everything appears to be functioning ok. We get coordinates of the rocket, and it appears we have good communication between the systems. Frequencies are all working fine, and I can see traffic on the radio modules. But when it comes to actually finding the rockets we are just completely confused. Completely unable to find anything at our last launch with the system. Essentially we just don't see any kind of updates on the LCD at all as we are walking along. All the distance, heading, track.... none of it updates as we move closer to the area of the rocket.
It's almost acting as if the LCD unit doesn't have any GPS reception, even though we're getting double-beeps saying both GPS have data, and the display says 0 seconds since the last update on both screens (rocket and LCD).
So, what might we be doing wrong?
-Hans