On Apr 28, 12:38*pm, JS wrote:
Yes, looks like there have been some tough days, finding gliders in a
few fields around the task.
Jim

Jim,

Well, maybe not ;-). Several pilots didn't (or couldn't) get their
SPOTs into TRACK mode, so the only location information came from the
few times they hit the OK button. If they didn't make a final OK
transmission after they landed, then their tag would get stranded out
on course somewhere. I am at least partially to blame for this
situation as I found out later I wasn't absolutely clear in how to
make sure the SPOT is actually in TRACK mode. SPOT added the TRACK
mode after the hardware was designed, and it's not easy to tell when
this mode is actually in effect.

Frank