How best to track a drone to prevent loss?
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Goss
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Greetings,
  
Today I was flying our fence line of 40+ acres with a phantom 3 pro just for the view and looking at our expecting cows. I went north a couple of hundred yards above some timberlands just to use up some battery life, when at 53% I got a "low battery voltage. Landing now" message. About this time my return to home button turned into a red X and was not available. I tried to turn the drone south to head back to the field, but the visual locked up and became highly pixelated to the point of seeing nothing useful for direction. I pushed for altitude and made my best guess for south only to receive one last pixelated view of trees.
  
I went cross country to try and get a better signal but it was and is lost. It appears that there is nothing on my mapping that I can use either.

  
So,
  
I will be replacing this drone since we have gotten used to using it as a camera and tool around the house and property. What I want to avoid is another lost one. Is there some way of tracking via GPS that would give me the location of a drone with low battery voltage issues?
  
Thanks for reading. I appreciate it.
  
2020-3-15
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Labroides
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Australia
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2020-3-15
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Geebax
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Australia
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I would suggest the Marco Polo Tracker: https://www.amazon.com/Eureka-Te ... oring/dp/B01N9592RQ
2020-3-16
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Goss
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Flight distance : 42740 ft

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Geebax Posted at 3-16 13:58
I would suggest the Marco Polo Tracker: https://www.amazon.com/Eureka-Technology-MARCOPOLO-Advanced-Monitoring/dp/B01N9592RQ

Got it.
Thank you very much.
2020-3-16
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DJI Stephen
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Hello and good day Goss. Thank you for reaching out and for sharing this information with us. I hope that you will get the best recommendation from our valued DJI co pilots on what device they are using to rack there DJI Drones. Thank you and have a safe flight always.
2020-3-17
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Peo
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I use this, stuck with Velcro straps.
Waterproof, 5 day transmission, no magnet.
Works perfectly. Don't know if it works in the US
https://shop.minifinder.se/en/minifinder-pico-lite-gps-tracker
2020-3-18
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