Yes I used an external antenna.
Just a small puck, the one Swift sells with their piksi's.
No I did not get past the ITAR limit, but I built the code that I flew from
source.
Draw your own conclusions...
Went from 7 sats on the pad to 4 sats.... at peak acceleration...
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Ken Biba <kenbiba@xxxxxx> wrote:
And it kept reporting? Good.
Did you use external antenna? Trying to figure out if it will fit in
space I have. I have one but external antenna iffy.
Did you get past ITAR limit of 500m/s? Stop reporting?
K
Ken Biba
Novarum, Inc.
415-577-5496
On Aug 1, 2015, at 9:30 PM, Paul Breed <paul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Between 7 and 9 g, and 11,000 ft or so.
I'll rerun the test with close to double the acceleration in 2 weeks.
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Ken Biba <kenbiba@xxxxxx> wrote:
Paul:
Good news. What was spec of rocket. Motor, airframe size, accel and
apogee altitude. What GPS antenna did you use?
I have flight with payload space north of 100k scheduled for September.
Wondering whether worth flying Piksi.
K
Ken Biba
Novarum, Inc.
415-577-5496
On Aug 1, 2015, at 8:29 PM, Paul Breed <paul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:maintain lock and sacrifice accuracy.
Today I flew 2 piksi's on an HPR.
Piksi #1 had the latest firmware (.19) with setting adjusted to
It also had a modified TCXO to be a lo acceleration sensitivity TCXO.determine acceleration it saw.
It seemed to hold lock during boost. Still need to crunch the data to
looked at I don't know it the data is any good.
2nd Piksi was recording RAW RF and until I send the data off to be
by a few seconds)
Blog post with details will be posted later this week.
This time rocket worked and recovered flawlessly.
The only rocket anamoly was one of the drogue charges did not go off.
I have dual altimeters and dual charges with secondary charge delayed
So without the redundancy I would have lost or shredded the rocket.
Paul