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A while back, someone asked about "when to use a tracker". Let me give a real example of the benefits of a tracker, from this past weekend.
I flew my G3 on an unknown AMW motor -- K800, I think, but I'm not positive. The reason I don't know is I had previously assembled it for another rocket, then was unable to fly it, so I saved it for later.
Anywho, the rocket did a "lovely" thing and arced directly into the sun -- none of us could see it. The only evidence we ever saw of the rocket, once it neared the sun, was the puff from the apogee ejection charge. But because we saw that after it happened, nobody had a line on the rocket itself.
....but my tracker did. And I knew due to loss of signal that the rocket was down, and on the other side of a rise.
From that point, until I had the rocket in hand, was 15 minutes. Why? Because of the tracker.
Trackers are a great thing, when it comes to recovering rockets. Especially those you lose site of.
-Kevin
I flew my G3 on an unknown AMW motor -- K800, I think, but I'm not positive. The reason I don't know is I had previously assembled it for another rocket, then was unable to fly it, so I saved it for later.
Anywho, the rocket did a "lovely" thing and arced directly into the sun -- none of us could see it. The only evidence we ever saw of the rocket, once it neared the sun, was the puff from the apogee ejection charge. But because we saw that after it happened, nobody had a line on the rocket itself.
....but my tracker did. And I knew due to loss of signal that the rocket was down, and on the other side of a rise.
From that point, until I had the rocket in hand, was 15 minutes. Why? Because of the tracker.
Trackers are a great thing, when it comes to recovering rockets. Especially those you lose site of.
-Kevin