I got two more flights with Eggfinders Saturday at ROCstock, both worked flawlessly. First flight was in my 5" Jart "Jughead". Flew on an AT L900 Dark Matter to 9330 ft. Eggfinder tracked throughout the flight. With "Rocket Locator" on my Android, it was a breeze driving out over the playa right to my rocket. This stuff could spoil you.
The second flight was with my 3" Blackstar on a K513 Fast Jack. I rebuilt the N/C similar to the Jart so I could use the same sled in either rocket.
Much higher acceleration finally caused the Eggfinder to break lock, but picked it right back up at apogee. Same results, drove right to the rocket. I don't think I could have flown four dual deploy high power rockets in one day without the Eggfinder. I still had the energy to fly Warp Core Breach that night. It was a much harder recovery, the winds were moving right along at 9 pm. I didn't feel driving my Jeep around in the dark with all the kids running around was safe, so I chased WCB almost to the highway on foot. Fortunately, it was too heavy to get drug, just laid there waiting for me to turn the lights off. Long walk back with an 8 lb. rocket.
After Jugheads flight, I went out and recovered Cris, who was way out on the playa recovering his rocket. He showed me the new RX unit with the LCD screen, pretty slick unit with GPS coordinates right on the screen, and you can change the frequency it works on with an internal switch. So I bought Sharon her own Eggfinder on 921 Mhz. so we can fly our rockets together, and use one RX unit to find them with.
Cris was a little nervous cruising back to the launch area, I don't think he has been in a Jeep at speed before, even though I did slow down a little for the ditches....:grin:
The second flight was with my 3" Blackstar on a K513 Fast Jack. I rebuilt the N/C similar to the Jart so I could use the same sled in either rocket.
Much higher acceleration finally caused the Eggfinder to break lock, but picked it right back up at apogee. Same results, drove right to the rocket. I don't think I could have flown four dual deploy high power rockets in one day without the Eggfinder. I still had the energy to fly Warp Core Breach that night. It was a much harder recovery, the winds were moving right along at 9 pm. I didn't feel driving my Jeep around in the dark with all the kids running around was safe, so I chased WCB almost to the highway on foot. Fortunately, it was too heavy to get drug, just laid there waiting for me to turn the lights off. Long walk back with an 8 lb. rocket.
After Jugheads flight, I went out and recovered Cris, who was way out on the playa recovering his rocket. He showed me the new RX unit with the LCD screen, pretty slick unit with GPS coordinates right on the screen, and you can change the frequency it works on with an internal switch. So I bought Sharon her own Eggfinder on 921 Mhz. so we can fly our rockets together, and use one RX unit to find them with.
Cris was a little nervous cruising back to the launch area, I don't think he has been in a Jeep at speed before, even though I did slow down a little for the ditches....:grin: