For anyone who has an Athlon Rangecraft I have a couple of questions. Can you download the shot session files directly to your computer via USB cord, or do you have to use an app? And what format are the files in - are they .csv? I did email Athlon and asked them the same questions and they said that you can download .csv files directly from the Rangecraft, but I'd like to hear testimony from real live actual people.
I have a Garmin Xero and while it's great, it really irritates me that the session files are in a .fits format. I can download them to my computer, but there does not appear to be any convenient way to convert them to an Excel compatible format. The only way to get .csv files from the Garmin to my computer is to email them via the Garmin ShotView app. That's somewhat clumsy but doable. And it's all well and good until the app stops being supported and no longer works, which does happen.
Regardless, any of these small radar-based chronographs have rendered optical chronos (and the original big orange LabRadar unit) completely obsolete. They take up almost no space, weigh next to nothing, and are extremely easy to use. No having to set up skyscreens/units downrange. No stringing wires back to the bench. No gun/chrono/target alignment issues. Instead of rarely using a chronograph when shooting because it's such a pain in the butt, you can set up the Garmin or Athlon in a few seconds and use it or not as you see fit.
I have a Garmin Xero and while it's great, it really irritates me that the session files are in a .fits format. I can download them to my computer, but there does not appear to be any convenient way to convert them to an Excel compatible format. The only way to get .csv files from the Garmin to my computer is to email them via the Garmin ShotView app. That's somewhat clumsy but doable. And it's all well and good until the app stops being supported and no longer works, which does happen.
Regardless, any of these small radar-based chronographs have rendered optical chronos (and the original big orange LabRadar unit) completely obsolete. They take up almost no space, weigh next to nothing, and are extremely easy to use. No having to set up skyscreens/units downrange. No stringing wires back to the bench. No gun/chrono/target alignment issues. Instead of rarely using a chronograph when shooting because it's such a pain in the butt, you can set up the Garmin or Athlon in a few seconds and use it or not as you see fit.
