On the Ground
The Quasar detects that your rocket is on the ground when it stops moving for over 5 seconds. You
can configure the buzzer in the Hardware Menu to be OFF at landing, to provide a continuous
“siren” tone for locating your rocket, or to have it beep out the maximum altitude. If you configured
the buzzer to beep out the apogee, the beeps work like this:
1 Beep = 1
2 Beeps = 2
…..
9 Beeps = 9
10 Beeps = 0
So, if you fly to 12, 360’ you will hear:
Long Pause…
Long Beep… (“I’m going to give you’re the apogee reading…”)
Short Pause…
1 Beep (10,000’)
Short Pause
2 Beeps (2 x 1000’)
Short Pause
3 Beeps (3 x 100’)
Short Pause
6 Beeps (6 x 10’)
Short Pause
10 Beeps (zero 1’ reading)
<10 second pause, then sequence repeats>
The beeps continue until you turn off the power, and also act as a verification that you had a
successful flight, but getting your rocket back in one piece pretty much told you that, didn’t it?
After the altitude has beeped out, the Quasar will send out a GPS location packet. This is the “final
location” of your rocket. If you are within the ground range of the radio (typically a few hundred
yards or so) your LCD receiver will pick up this packet, and give you the updated GPS coordinates.
If you have the LCD-GPS Module option on your LCD receiver, it will also give you an updated
compass direction/distance to your rocket, and update the bearing/distance to your rocket. This
final position data can be very helpful if you can’t see your rocket… like if you land in a field of
crops.
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