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Old 4th Dec 2019, 08:25
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Jan Olieslagers
 
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Technology has made quite some progress in recent years. On the one hand, transponders are much less power-hungry since the need for cavity magnetrons disappeared; on the other hand today's batteries store lots more energy per unit of weight. Many gliders carry both Flarm and a real transponder these days, powering both systems from batteries.
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