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Old 10-06-2017, 10:23 AM
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Default Radio ignition system (link)

Hello All,

While looking for other items on eBay, I just came across the store page of Bundaberg Fibreglass (Damian Bundy), an Australian vendor of music- and hobby-related electronic devices and fiberglass (or fibreglass; the British usually call it "glass fibre") vehicle accessories such as air scoops (that's an eclectic product selection, to be sure... :-) ), and:

They sell, for $31.14 plus ~$12.37 postage (U.S. dollars), a coded FM radio-controlled, model rocket remote ignition system (see: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Remote-Mode...WEPK s&vxp=mtr ), which has a range of over 50 meters (165 feet). Now:

For people with spinal problems that make it impossible to lean back to look up and follow the rockets' ascents (I'm in this category; I have an increasingly quadrupedal stance, which I would otherwise welcome, but it is very troublesome--and painful--in my current form), such a device is a godsend! Even for those who are not so afflicted, being able to watch launches from a greater distance--and thus "from the side"--would *literally* provide a new perspective on the hobby, by enabling all flight events to be observed against the local terrain, the horizon, and the "lower sky" background. It would also be beneficial to radio-equipped payloads (transmitting instruments' telemetry, audio, video, etc.), because the simplest and most practical model rocket-borne antennas emit more RF energy broadside to the rocket's body than straight down to the ground.
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