I have a beeline GPS tracker andhave it set up so that it my Kenwood TH-D7 automagically adds a waypoint to my handheld GPS each time a packet arrives. The handheld GPS then give me azimuth and distance to the last reported position of the rocket. It's not bad, but I want more. When the rocket gets near the ground I often lose the signal - so the last packet isn't where it is, it's where it was. The GPS only stores the last waypoint rather than the full track - maybe I oughta switch to dog trackers.
What I want is a mapping program on my laptop that will draw a map with a trendline showing all of the positions that came from the rocket - so I can extraoplate from the last positon to the actual rocket.
APRS+SA does't cut it - it's pretty hard to use, can only auto update if you can score a copy of a very old version of Street Atlas, uses street maps,not topos, etc.
There's one that works with MapPoint, but it would cost me some $ to get it and MapPoint and hope I liked it - can anybody vouch for it?
The GPSFlight guys were really nice and let me have a trial license, but so far I can't get it to recognize the data coming in - their data window shows that they're seeing the packets on the com port - but they never offer to allow me to trac them.
Does anybody use BeeLine GPS with mapping software? Please share any and all tips.
Mike
What I want is a mapping program on my laptop that will draw a map with a trendline showing all of the positions that came from the rocket - so I can extraoplate from the last positon to the actual rocket.
APRS+SA does't cut it - it's pretty hard to use, can only auto update if you can score a copy of a very old version of Street Atlas, uses street maps,not topos, etc.
There's one that works with MapPoint, but it would cost me some $ to get it and MapPoint and hope I liked it - can anybody vouch for it?
The GPSFlight guys were really nice and let me have a trial license, but so far I can't get it to recognize the data coming in - their data window shows that they're seeing the packets on the com port - but they never offer to allow me to trac them.
Does anybody use BeeLine GPS with mapping software? Please share any and all tips.
Mike