marshalls

[Grovsey]

hi all
can you tell me if marshalls telemetry 5 channal will take a transmitter on 173.245 form the falconry electronics range
cheers
lads

[Hawkmaster]

Yes if it is on 173, should be about channel 1 to 3

[Falconry Equipment International]

Hi Grovsey
yes it will, but once you have seen the marshalls RT+ & Powermax transmitters working you'll be getting them as well! :rolleyes:

[Finnish]

I agree the RT+ is a very good piece of kit. :wink:

[Falconry Equipment International]

Have you seen the RT+2004/ even better :yawinkle:

[Hawkmaster]

Thats the one I was talking about, mind you, both were good anyway. The first one sure took a beating on a falcon, leg mounted and still worked flawlessly.

[Miguel]

Thats the one I was talking about, mind you, both were good anyway. The first one sure took a beating on a falcon, leg mounted and still worked flawlessly.

Same here! And we use ours 2 times a day, 7 days a week... Although they don't face the "violence" while hunting, they get pretty beaten up...

We have some L.L. Electronics ones, but I think nothing beats Marshall!!

[OhMyGod]

Maybe this is off topic but personally, if I were flying any broadwing or accipiter, I would go for a transmitter with long battery life and less range as the type of country we have hear in the uk will not give you line of sight for a long enough distance to get the most out of your tag. And I feel there is not much difference in performance in most of the uk hillside country.

Better I reckon to go for a tag which lasts longer, not further.

I know alot of people disagree, but I dont really know of many people losing these type of birds on a thermal.

[Hawkmaster]

Here is a comparison, before we did a test.

[Miguel]

What's the top one? It almost looks like a L.L.E....

[Hawkmaster]

Luksander XLF 6 volt with the standard 13" antenna

[Miguel]

Ok... It's almost the same... The ones we have are LL Electronics XLF, they're just like the Lukander's except the blue rubber on the bottom

[Hawkmaster]

I just put that oin to help see which hawk has which transmitter on and also useful if dropped or when it get bashed on the floor.

[Miguel]

Yeah, I've used coloured tape, each of our transmitters has a colour to make it easy to identify on the bird.

Have you heard about the "mod" that can be done on the RT's that makes them last for 60 days (always on obviously)?? I'm curious about that...

[GoneHawking]

Atomik, I think to make the transmitter last that long you have to have the beep rate reduced, ie: 10 beeps per min etc etc.

[Hawkmaster]

Yes this is true and I believe they simply do it by inserting the antenna into a tube and it reads the signals from a PC and then the transmitter can be tuned to your individual needs.

[Miguel]

This was an e-mail I got from Robert Bagley from Marshall:

"However, through a combination of using zinc air batteries (3.5x the life) and changing the operational settings, it my be possible to achieve 45 - 60 days life from and RT+ and not sacrifice the power."

[Bird_Dog]

My old RT plus transmitter drifts and the power max i bought isn't working... seems to be something wrong with the magnetic switch. Sent it in for repair and haven't heard anything in almost a month. The word is the power max has a high incidence of pulling out deck feathers. One theory is the shortness/stiffness of the transmitter antenna results in more pressure on the feather, thus it is more likely to pull out a feather compared to transmitters with a flexible antenna which distribute the force placed on a single deck feather. I'm going to try a Merlin systems. Before the availability of commercial tail mounts, we use to make a mount that was secured to both deck feathers. Perhaps that system is better ???

-- BIRD_DOG

[OhMyGod]

You can securer on the 2 feathers either side of the decks, then the weight is evenly distributed over 4 but attatched to 2

[Bird_Dog]

OhMyGod,

We used a small triangular piece of leather. It is attached by punching two small holes for each deck and using wireties to secure the leather to the decks. In the middle and top side of the leather we place a small rigid plastic tube to which the transmitter can be attached. The tube was basically glued and tied with thread to the leather. How do you extend the mount adjacent feathers in your technique?

-- BIRD_DOG