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As a heads up I want to tell you about a tracker I bought on Amazon.
Because of all the fly-aways, I decided to buy a cheap tracker to velcro on my Phantom. I got the TK102B because it was cheap, worked from a sim so low running cost, and will also use GPRS should the GPS satellites fall out of the sky - lol
I would like to say to anyone else who is tempted to buy this type of tracker to be wary. This type of tracker is made by quite a few companies and is extensively cloned.
The result is a device that looks and is named the same or similar to the original device, but run different software. Not all the devices will do the all the things as the original, and the command set is slightly different.
I have tried for many hours following downloaded PDF instructions for my device, only to find out that my version either does not use that feature or the command and syntax is slightly different - despite the manual being for my device (or so I thought).
Types to watch out for are
TK102
TK102-2
Tk102B
Also there are iphone and android apps paid and free that help you program these trackers, be careful just because it says (or detects) your tracker as a 102b etc (which it was in my case) does NOT mean it will work with it - due to the extensive cloning and firmware tweaking these manufacturers are doing.
Now the positive bit. Once you get it working its rather jolly good ! I'm looking forward to testing it in the field once the whether is clement.
One other point, it did come with a manual - however the text was sooooooo small I could not read it. I have since had to scan and enlarge it. Thats when I found out that 50% of all the good commands like continual tracking are not included in my version.
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