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Sorry late and didn't read all the comments. But unless I am missing something there are multiple failures here.
1) Your stopped receiving a signal from your egg finder.
2) You had a deployment of the main at apogee.
3) You lost sight of the rocket on descent.
Now the question I didn't see in a couple pages is - did both main and rogue deploy at apogee? Or just one of them?
I am also left wracking my brain to recall if heart beats are sent while the egg finder doesn't have a lock. I missed if you had a heartbeat and no location or no heartbeat. Evidently you didn't have a second spotter with eyes on the rocket (or they lost it as well making another failure). I do recall from my L1 that my egg finder lost lock at launch and picket it up several seconds after deployment (single deployment).
I am assuming also that you took your receiver out while looking for the rocket on chance that it might pick up somewhere along the way.
One thing I will leave you with is don't give up hope on it. I lost a rocket on an L1 attempt. Three months later, I got a voicemail (on my birthday no less) from the club president's wife that it had been returned. (And my wife gave me an egg finder that day as well.)
The Eggfinder transmitters will send whatever data it gets from the GPS module, whether or not it has valid $GPGGA packets. The LCD receiver will only acknowledge receipt of data when a valid $GPGGA packet with a fix is received. Do you think there would be some value in giving you some kind of indication that data is being received without a valid fix? (i.e., perhaps a short beep-beep instead of the longer "I have a fix" beep).