Rocket Tracking with RF beacon

Trying to find the rocket a few miles down range before the big storm blew in. I am up on the rental car to get some altitude to try to find the faint beeps of our RF beacon on the rocket. It felt like a scene from Fury Road 🙂

Sstrangely, we finally found a faint beep in the opposite direction, back toward the launch site. We headed that way stopping every quarter mile, and it got stronger. As we drew near it pointed right where we started, with the line of rocket building camps. Did someone use our same frequency I wondered… and we are following their beacon? All would be lost in that case… Or… maybe we were tracking someone taking our rocket back to the launch control area for “lost & Found”. It was the latter! The joy of recovery! (below)