Wow, this is a tough crowd....... that's great!
Ya'll are building this thing in your heads, trying to figure out where you would put your "normal" flying gear with out actually having hands on yet.
Exactly what we were going through and it took several days of shortening and lengthening stuff to figure out.
We can get everything in, that we normally would use in much larger, more spacious rockets. 2-altimeters, tracker, nomex on both ends, drugue...12in...25ft of cord in apogee side [ we fly around trees] 48in. main & 12 ft in nose. All 1/4 in. Kevlar.
All with a 54mm 6xl grain motor installed. Quik-links only on Av-bay sides of cords, knots to tie ends to Y-harness & NC loop.
I am sure there will be many, many other methods used and that's as it should be.
As far as Trackers go:
Before the build is done I will lay out the 2 ways I do it with both Marshal [Scout, 6in antenna ] and ComSpec [11.5 in antenna]
I have always taped tracker to shock cord, most often apogee side. Reason is...........when rocket separates at apogee the signal becomes very loud once outside the airframe, notifying me of successful deploy. Especially handy when flying at altitudes where you can't see.
I also have taped to Main shock cord when there wasn't room or any other way.
One must ALWAYS use electric tape [or spec the same] never masking as it will tear through even many layers. I tape the unit on & cover end to end unit and shock cord, but leave the antenna free.
For nine years now, it hasn't failed me. I have a few NC's with a place for trackers in them, they always worked great, especially when flying near water.
At Bong .....Twice now... I landed in ponds and the only thing visible was the NC & tracker bobbing on the surface.
I have seen so many different ways to install trackers, it never ceases's to amaze me.
Back to the punisher, there is enough room to get either type tracker I mentioned in both places, I have done it.
Of course room is tight, and it will depend on how much, & what size shock cord you use. For the NC how large a chute and what type, some 48's pack much smaller than others. The 2 sizes of tracker I use pretty much mimic most other units out there, so that should not be a problem.
There are a lot of 54 minimum's out there with everything crammed in, and this is like a cavern compared to them.:wink: