Live Tracking: Our Last Young Bird Race 2025

[worm]

Hi Winfort, Love the little vid you did of the tracker. I must say how nice it is to put an actual face to an avatar.
I am really interested in the tracking devices but am a little bit of a techno-phobe. I dont have a clue when you start tslking about "air tags" and stuff.
In any case, I am not really interested in how these things work but more about what they can do and where the limitations are.
For instance, (I'm guessing that you havent got the bird back with the tracker on it) so would you be able to pin-point the last known position of the tracker to a degree that you could go along to find it and maybe establish why the bird never made it home?
Do these trackers have that capability?

Hi Dave I believe these are real time trackers. I've never understood why anybody would want to use them. If you were racing from Barcelona would you want to know if your bird was sat on a house on route? And knowing this, what could you do about it?
Others have said they can help with training. My question would be how? Knowing which route a bird takes when homing helps you how? There's NOTHING you can do to make it take a different route.

real time is not allowed under rpra rules these rings have to come home to download the date no way to track the bird before arrival

[king]

Hi Winfort, Love the little vid you did of the tracker. I must say how nice it is to put an actual face to an avatar.
I am really interested in the tracking devices but am a little bit of a techno-phobe. I dont have a clue when you start tslking about "air tags" and stuff.
In any case, I am not really interested in how these things work but more about what they can do and where the limitations are.
For instance, (I'm guessing that you havent got the bird back with the tracker on it) so would you be able to pin-point the last known position of the tracker to a degree that you could go along to find it and maybe establish why the bird never made it home?
Do these trackers have that capability?

Hi Dave I believe these are real time trackers. I've never understood why anybody would want to use them. If you were racing from Barcelona would you want to know if your bird was sat on a house on route? And knowing this, what could you do about it?
Others have said they can help with training. My question would be how? Knowing which route a bird takes when homing helps you how? There's NOTHING you can do to make it take a different route.

real time is not allowed under rpra rules these rings have to come home to download the date no way to track the bird before arrival

Hi worm, I'm not aware of ANY RPRA rules about trackers, live or download ones.? Can you tell me what the RPRA rule number is?

[worm]

was told it not sure myself tbh

[Johnbee]

Thanks

[Anthony webster]

I couldn't use them if I new bird was sat on roof few miles away I go there n shoot it straight off roof same as if I had one on a distance pigeon n kept seeing it stop off I would be fuming n cull the bird ,so better I never know because my temper couldn't put up with rubbish birds making a fool out of me and me seeing it happen ,some things are best not being been seen I look at birds that come 3,5,10 minutes late with disgust for me there 3,5,10 miles behind how can birds be so poor conditioned the same .