New Tracker

[neck beard]

It hasn't even been released yet... 2 years after it was first announced.

Get a Pieps DSP.

[Jonathan S.]

summary here of original Tracker vs upcoming Tracker2:
http://www.wildsnow.com/1605/backcou...beacon-review/
and here:
http://beaconreviews.com/transceiver...s_Tracker2.asp

[Shredhead]

Any up date on the T2? I've been extremely happy with BCA's customer service and would like to give them my business. But Jr's getting to the point that he need's a beacon and I was going to give him my Tracker and up grade.

[AK]

I talked to them this morning on the phone, and they said they're looking to have them shipping to their retailers by mid-December.

[Jonathan S.]

The Tracker 2 has arrived – or at least, *a* Tracker 2 has arrived at my house.

Initial impressions:

- About half an ounce light than the original, a wee bit shorter length, about the same volume overall, but housing is nicely cut away in the center to allow for enhanced grip. (I don’t have the harness – this unit is still officially marked as a Demo model and is for now owned by BCA, not me.)

- The pull-out tab for switching into Search has just the right amount of resistance. The tab is easy to grasp for switching into Search. (The design concept is very similar to the Arva Evolution/A.D.vanced/3 Axes models, but a bit better executed in my opinion.)

- Search tab is mechanically blocked from being pulled out while beacon is Off, and power switch is mechancially blocked from being turned Off while beacon is in Search.

- The beacon will beep if kept in Search for more than 30 minutes or if kept in Transmit for more than 8 hours.

- Fine search phase seems perfect: elimination of all nulls/spikes, distance indicators down to 0.0, and directional indicators shutting down at a point to be determined. (My unit shuts down its directional indicators consistently at a certain distance display, but that distance has yet to be determined for the final production version, as mine is still a demo. In general, keeping on the directional indicators into the fine search phase has its pluses and minuse – the competition ranges from 2.0 to 3.0, with the Pulse offering a 3.0 default and a 0.3 option.)

- Testing for accuracy of multiple-burial indicator light is ongoing.

- Range test is pending.

- Testing for any increase in processing speed is pending.

Details to be published in upcoming WildSnow.com blog.

[Inosels09]

Glad your keep ing the SV too.

We need a full report on the new bike. Have it on my desk by the morning please.....

[splat]

Interesting review. Haven't you gone out practicing with it, you know, like, where you're blindfolded, maybe naked and the beacon you're searching for is strapped on the back of a rummaging hedgehog or something to give it that air of realism? When are you putting it through it's paces on the search?