Foxhunting for fun is one thing, but the last thing I want to find myself doing is This is one reason for my reticence about anything home-built, and / or tromping around an airport w/ pieces of measuring tape If you can MacGyver something for $100.00, then that's wonderful.Īgreed, but it's gotta work and be reliable, at least for actuals. $100 and did the job would it be acceptable? Query: I'm unfamiliar with the regs, so can you tell me if there is an approved list for us to use of locators? I had an olde schoole L-Per in my kit for about 7 yearsĪnd rarely used it, now that I need one I can't get my hands on one. It sure would be nice if acquiring the proper tools wasn't such a hassle. So DF is still a "thing" for us, just not as much as before. My wing still gets a fair number of ELT searches - this calendar year we've had a non-distress on "my" airport, as well as twoĭistress searches that wound up having fatalities, along with a handful of non-distress hunts. We're stuck because we certainly can't get people spun up without something, and this seems to be the only reasonable game in town. With commercial antennas it looks like it'll run us about $500, not bad compared to the $750 plus for a cheeseblock, but Position of having little choice but to get an MK sniffer. With L-Tronics struggling and doing nothing right now but making a list of potential buyers (my gut is the likelihood of themĮver producing more cheeseblocks is very low, considering their primary customer's need is shrinking), I'm now in the I didn't spend a lot of time looking into it, but it appears that Seimac and Novatech and MetOcean are all related companies. That looks like the same case and a similar faceplate (inverse colors). Interestingly I found an outfit called MetOcean still manufacturing a similar device for buoy and other marine location It barely picks up a signal even in close proximity to a beacon, and at the highest volume you can barely hear it. I will say, however, it does make for nice "high-tech action shots", assuming the viewer doesn't know that the device isn't turned on. I can report and confirm, it's still useless junk, which is the only reason it was available to issue to my unit in the first place. So I asked to de-necro this thread since the Gods of Karma have seen fit to issue me another "No-find", and But once you have it and spend some time with it, you will assuredly wonder what took you so long to get it. I really can't say this any stronger - I did extensive field tests with the old and new L-Per, the Seimac, and the Sniffer and the Sniffer won by every metric I could fathom with the one exception that it's tougher to obtain. I find myself more engaged with the surroundings visually and considering terrain and obstacles more than worrying about operating the unit.įurther, the Sniffer is MUCH lighter and smaller than either L-Per - making use, transport, and storage much easier. The Sniffer also has 9 self attenuating steps that automatically kick in as you get closer and closer - so no more sensitivity knob to twiddle. No needle to watch, so you are focusing on your bearing the entire time. The main reason is that the MK4 converts the signal strength to an audible tone so that you can hear the difference in the strength as you sweep the beam side to side. Well, this is all covered in much detail in the MK4 threads, but yes - they do. Quote from: K圜AP on November 01, 2008, 11:50:56 PMĭo they work better with the beam antenna than any L-tronics (new or old) with a beam attached to those (for relative comparison)?
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