GPS tracker saved my plane
#1
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Tech Rookie
Joined: Apr 2019
Posts: 2
hey guys !! I have an interesting story to share with ,I live in a small community where they are about 15 families ,me and my friends were riding our RC planes near the dunes, I have an F-16 Thunderbirds 70mm which was fine while flying it ,was having good fun with it and the jet sounds passing by were pure blizz ,I was nearing about 100ft in the air at sudden my plane started to loose control and then the plane's fail safe kicked in
and the engines were killed and the plane started to glide just rite over an 700 v power grid lines ,I felt that my RC plane is done with, and a miracle happened the plane crossed the power lines and crashed into the dunes but survived with minor damages
which was fixable, after the terrible experience me and my buddies were chilling around and thinking why did it loose control and we started installing range boosters but even that had no effect ,after a while one of my friends borrowed an spectra meter and started to analyse the radio frequencies, we were searching for the whole area and to my surprise I found my neighbour installing an radio jammer 2 days before when he had installed he said that it was an radio broadcaster, when me and my friend(who knows a lot about wireless ) asked about it he couldn’t hide the truth anymore he confessed that it was an radio jammer I installed it just because you were causing nuisance near the dunes and i have asked you many times that don’t fly the planes near the dunes go elsewhere ,we were stumbled upon the truth and the next day we flew our RC planes even more further away from my neighbours home .
At this time we flew with no interference at all ,but don’t think it’s an happy ending ,now this time I had installed an GPS tracker in my RC plane so basically i hacked open the tracker device and removed the board and battery
,As the device is lighter it wouldn't add that much weight to the Plane
,so let’s come to the part of installing the device ,To counter weight the plane we have to keep the tracker in such a way that would be in centre of gravity to the plane ,so i chose the centre of the fuselage and tied it up using plastic cable ties and vola turned on the GPS tracker it’s that simple and used GPS tracker website and it worked well
yet again i lost control of my plane but as I had installed an GPS tracker this time, I had no efforts to track my lost broken
plane (i will be posting videos on how to ) Vamosys GPS Tracker app worked well in finding my lost plane because of its 6 hours battery backup, we were frustrated with our neighbour we took a sound analyser and wanted to see how much DB our planes produced when flying our planes ,I was near my neighbour’s house and called up my friend (he was very far away) and said to fire her up and to my surprise I couldn’t even hear those noises and the meter showed just 30 DB which is acceptable ,but still his radio was interfering with our radio and we still have no idea what to do or where to fly our RC planes .could you people help me with the problem ?
and the engines were killed and the plane started to glide just rite over an 700 v power grid lines ,I felt that my RC plane is done with, and a miracle happened the plane crossed the power lines and crashed into the dunes but survived with minor damages
which was fixable, after the terrible experience me and my buddies were chilling around and thinking why did it loose control and we started installing range boosters but even that had no effect ,after a while one of my friends borrowed an spectra meter and started to analyse the radio frequencies, we were searching for the whole area and to my surprise I found my neighbour installing an radio jammer 2 days before when he had installed he said that it was an radio broadcaster, when me and my friend(who knows a lot about wireless ) asked about it he couldn’t hide the truth anymore he confessed that it was an radio jammer I installed it just because you were causing nuisance near the dunes and i have asked you many times that don’t fly the planes near the dunes go elsewhere ,we were stumbled upon the truth and the next day we flew our RC planes even more further away from my neighbours home .At this time we flew with no interference at all ,but don’t think it’s an happy ending ,now this time I had installed an GPS tracker in my RC plane so basically i hacked open the tracker device and removed the board and battery
,As the device is lighter it wouldn't add that much weight to the Plane
,so let’s come to the part of installing the device ,To counter weight the plane we have to keep the tracker in such a way that would be in centre of gravity to the plane ,so i chose the centre of the fuselage and tied it up using plastic cable ties and vola turned on the GPS tracker it’s that simple and used GPS tracker website and it worked wellyet again i lost control of my plane but as I had installed an GPS tracker this time, I had no efforts to track my lost broken
plane (i will be posting videos on how to ) Vamosys GPS Tracker app worked well in finding my lost plane because of its 6 hours battery backup, we were frustrated with our neighbour we took a sound analyser and wanted to see how much DB our planes produced when flying our planes ,I was near my neighbour’s house and called up my friend (he was very far away) and said to fire her up and to my surprise I couldn’t even hear those noises and the meter showed just 30 DB which is acceptable ,but still his radio was interfering with our radio and we still have no idea what to do or where to fly our RC planes .could you people help me with the problem ?
#3
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Joined: Mar 2019
Posts: 31
My god, you've got a much cooler head then me. What's your plane cost, several thousand dollars I'd guess. I would have smashed his face in with my broken plane had that been me. Sorry though I've got no useful information, but radio jammers are illegal where I live, as the previous poster stated, did you see if they are legal where you are?




