Model Forum / General / Rockets / December 2004

Marty Dorociak - of X-Rockets.com
flys his  "HyperRatt" w/ "Eye-Pod"
with BoosterVision on-board video

http://www.boostervision.com/xrockets.htm

HyperTek FX grain off X-Rockets Launcher
Launched on a Hypertek K240

View and hear the blast off after GOX ignition,
see the aluminum sparks,
be onboard for dual-deployment
from 3,669' through the clouds!

http://www.boostervision.com/xrockets.htm

You can see the "Eye Pod" attached to the outside of the 4" rocket at the
electronics bay module.  The A/V signal from the video camera in the Eye Pod
is wired to a 2.4 gHz transmitter piggybacked to the Alts-25 dual deployment
altimeter board, also in the e-bay.  A 3" rubber ducky antenna sticks out of
the side of the rocket to transmit the signal.

The rocket is "tracked" with a patch hi-gain antenna to boost the signal to
the BoosterVision receiving module.  The flight can now be captured by video
camera, digital recorder etc.  Warren is watching the transmitted LIVE
streaming audio and video on Marty's ARCHOS AV-420 digital recorder.

Marty spliced together the recorded video with a ground-view video shot with
a digital camera in video mode to make the X-Rockets OBV video.

http://www.boostervision.com/xrockets.htm

Art Upton
K8XG
BoosterVision.com