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Oops - forgot this is a no-attachment list<br><br><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">Kind of depends on where you are and how far you might drift. I have not tried live tracking with the beacon because I haven't had the time to try foxhunting with it.</span><div style="font-size: 13.3333px"><br></div><div style="font-size: 13.3333px">The BRB GPS is very good and the range is great. I used it on both my L2 and L3. My L2 went out of sight >1/2 mile away and we drove straight to within a 100m of where it landed. The KML data I got from my L3 shows the exact location where I hit the New River. It's small enough for normal-people HPR, but won't fit in my 29mm minimum diameter (or I might have found it after the last flight). <br><br>I've only flown the RF-v16 in low power, and never lost sight of the birds, but it will happily text back its GPS coordinates confirming where it is. It also won't fit in a 29mm, and requires a GSM signal and an active SIM card. It's hard to secure to an ebay board as it doesn't have exterior mounting screws. I usually put it into a sealed compartment, but have also flown it once in a plastic container which was tied to the shock cord. <br><br>The Eggfinder appeared to have some assembly QA issues - aka I screwed something up during assembly). It worked fine when I first finished it, and the receiver/BT link to my phone for finding the device was super convenient. OTOH, it was clearly less powerful than the Big Red Bee. Side-by-side, but completely unscientific*, testing showed probably a 2:1 or 3:1 range advantage for the Big Red Bee (*I left the trackers on the front porch and drover around my neighborhood with the receivers). After sitting for ~2 months, the next time I powered it up there was a lot of heat in the transmitter IC and no RF signal. It would fit in a 29mm, but would have to be end-to-end with avionics - I couldn't get both it and my Raven to nest back to back in a 29mm coupler. The BRB does have a longer standard antenna as it operated on 430MHz vs Eggtimer's 900MHz, and the Eggtimer does not require a license. </div><br><br>L3 Flight Track Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/606j86jlxex03ls/Google%20Earth%20Image.jpg?dl=0<div><br></div><div class="mb_sig"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype">--</span><div><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype">Jordan</span></div></div><blockquote class="history_container" type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px; margin-top:20px; margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;">
<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">On 8/24/2018 11:12:12 AM, David Bloom <dwskb@att.net> wrote:</p>Which one works best for HPR?
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<br> Subject: Re: [NRVR-Members] Tracking Beacon/System Reccomendations?
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<br> I was wondering what folks would reccomend for using as a
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