Ground Station

[EricC]

Just gone of the air at the moment.
Now have a Pi 2 B waiting for a new licence.

Rx for today 1224

Back soon    fingers crossed

EricC

[Admin]

Hi Eric,

are you looking at the track files by any chance to see what you are capturing.
I think Dave styles is looking at building a post processor to analyse the data files

[DaveStyles]

I've built it, I just need to test it a bit more and release v0.1
In the true spirit of PAW, I'll then take suggestions and upgrade it as I go ;-)

Hopefully release the first version tomorrow.

[EricC]

Thanks to all, up and running again.

Regarding log files, have looked, the list is endless, not a clue what they mean.

[EricC]

Home screen from today.   Two aircraft,
no info been out all day.

[EricC]

Live all day no PAW RX received.
Poor WX after 1300z so not surprised no contacts.

[EricC]

No Paw Rx today

[EricC]

No Paw Rx again today.  On all day, reboot late afternoon.

[JCurtis]

It would seem I have picked up two contacts today, over 313 odd packets.  At least I have two callsigns with #'s around in the log.  I will work out some distances etc. later on.

Will either come forward with the name of my Base Station to claim a discount on a charger...?

[JCurtis]

Well if my trig is right, then I was picking the first at a range of 20.6km to 23.6km and the second starting at 13km, closing to 7.8km, then increasing again to 12.9km

If I find the energy and some new batteries for the calculator, I may look to reverse engineer the tracks... unless someone has some software to that already?

[Ian Melville]

I've not looked at the log in detail, but if the lat., lon. and alt can be stripped out you should be able to parse it for Google Earth?

I used to do a lot of this stuff, but have been out of programming for a few years now.

[JCurtis]

I've not looked at the log in detail, but if the lat., lon. and alt can be stripped out you should be able to parse it for Google Earth?

I used to do a lot of this stuff, but have been out of programming for a few years now.

Well what I have is the Easting and Northing relative to me, so some basic trig to get the relative bearing and distance.  Once I have that I can then work out the lat long based from my own fixed position, throw in the relative height, and generate a file.  I remember doing this stuff in ground school, amazed I could remember it to be honest!

I suppose I could just cut the corner and convert everything directly into Lat/Long...

[Ian Melville]

Which log Interface messages have you got enabled to see PAW packets?

[brinzlee]

That will be on the home screen of 192.168.1.1 under the TRX information TX and RX

[Ian Melville]

Thanks Brinzlee, I found that after I posted. However Jeremy stated that it was relative to his PAW, where as mine seems to be absolute.

Wish it would save the setting. Every time I leave the Config page I lose the log option ticks