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« on: July 10, 2018, 08:02:48 pm »
Et Voila, as you might say, or 'smoke on' seems more appropriate given the RAF flypast in London (which was pretty good) today.
It took me longer to dig the screen back out, unpack the HDMI and juggle power sources, than it did to replace the old Pi with the new Pi3B, power it up and watch the miracle of a trouble free boot process. It seems that, as suggested, my original Pi had 'gone tech'.
So, success. The 3 is notably quicker than the Pi B+ - seems like a worthwhile upgrade even if the board hadn't died.
I'll just need to get my unused licence updated for the new MAC address and get hold of a Bridge (seems this could be the more challenging bit) and I'll have a fully functioning Classic again. As it is, given the hardware mod suggested by Chris, I'll have an ADS-B out detector.
Lee, as an FYI, the 3 does boot up without the Harkwood attached as you were expecting.
As mentioned earlier there are a group of us planning to work on the connection to our Trig Transponders, as well as a slick installation location on a couple of gyrocopters. There are some questions about equipment orientation and how we may need to move an Antenna so they don't clash if the unit is mounted on, for example, it side - but those are for another thread.
Thanks for everyone's input - hopefully there are some trouble shooting details in here that someone else may find useful.