ELT replacement advice?

On Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 1:00:07 PM UTC-8, George Haeh wrote:
XCSoar, Oudie and likely other soaring software offer methods to Bluetooth

position to an app on your phone which sends packets to a tracking website.


Cell coverage is often pretty good a few thousand feet up, even over areas

where there is no coverage on the ground.

At our club private owner flights go to Livetrack24. Position reports go
out
every 30 seconds or so.

Watching the Benalla Worlds on Livetrack24, the update rate when working is great but cell phone coverage is pretty poor in places.
Anything you install needs to be properly placed. Carbon cockpits are not friendly to radio signals from below.
Jim

The two act in a very complementary way. It's like asking, what should I have, safety belt or airbags?

Why "or"?

While my fuselage is carbon fiber, I haven't seen significant breaks in my
LT24
tracks.

That's with my phone in my shirt pocket.

You might not get the same cell reception with a phone in a belt holster
inside carbon fiber.