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Model Aviation Magazine, AMA - Airplanes and Rockets

Electronics Manufacturers

Advanced RC - Servo Tester, etc.
BNB Products - Digital power recorders
Eagle Tree Systems - Seagull Wireless Telemetry
Siruis Electronics - chargers

Electronic Model Locators / Trackers

Audible LMA's

LoMA (Mr.RC-CAM) - Audible LMA using a PIC12C508(A)/509(A)
Lost Model Alarm (TugBoat) - Audible LMA using a PIC12F629/675
A LoMA hack using a "jogger alarm"
The "Dollarama Special" (Cats Eyes - i.e. me) - An LMA using an "entry alarm"
KeyRinger - A commercial "lost stuff" alarm
GWS Be-Found Aircraft Beeper - Commercial LMA

RF Trackers

"Beeping" Tracking Transmitter Kit
4-Transistor Tracking Transmitter
Mini Tracker
Pointer radars for pets - Commercial pet tracker
Walston Retrieval System - There seems to be very little information about this system on the web! See also here.
Rocket Hunter - Model rocket recovery system

Threads

LoMA: Worlds Simplest Lost Model Alarm
LoMA: World's Simplest Lost Model Alarm, Only three parts!
All Is Lost - where this all (sort of) started!
Things I have learned from loosing my plane - Some discussion of LMA's

Drones - Airplanes and Rockets



Modeling Resources
Academy of Model Aeronautics Tower Hobbies Horizon Hobby Sig Manufacturing Brodak