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Technical Support / Tiding up the cockpit, optimal placement

« on: December 31, 2017, 02:50:37 pm »

Pilot-aware is great, but I would like to look at options to make it easier to carry and set up cleaner rather than throwing lots of wires on the dashboard. I have looked at some other topics and the website but to be honest got a bit lost in terminology.

So, there is main PAW box, large hard antenna and small antenna on the lead in initial setup that i bought + GPS mouse.

1) Is there some recommendation on the optimal placement of the two antennas with respect to each other ie parallel, at 90 degrees or at 45 or it doesn't matter as long as they avoid metal and water?

2) Somebody online mentioned that they have used this https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01J9DH9U2/ref=pe_3187911_189395841_TE_dp_1 to replace the small antenna which is on a lead. Is it appropriate to do so?
Or  there are antennas sold on PAW website (again with complex names) so not sure which one (if) can be used to replace the small antenna on the lead

3) Alternatively, especially to avoid overheating in summer, instead of replacing the small antenna on a lead, should I rather buy another lead for extension of the large antenna, keep the box somehwere safe eg in a seat pocket or under my seat and just put on dashboard:
- Large antenna on an extension lead
- Small antenna with the lead
- GPS mouse which I actually already got?

Thank you!

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Technical Support / WIFI Channel Settings: B or G?

« on: December 31, 2017, 02:39:58 pm »

On network page my wifi mode was always selected as G from the beginning even though in user manual it says that default should be B. So which is right? What does it even mean and what are the consequences? Anything helps! thank you

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Technical Support / Lost GPS (Merged)

« on: December 31, 2017, 02:38:23 pm »

On my first flight with PilotAware I had a GPS mouse plugged in (instead of the default dongle). GPS Mouse and the device with dongles themselves were on the dashboard of PA28 with clear view of the sky. Attached to recommended anker powerbank and PAW supplied power cable. However in two flights 45 minutes  GPS signal was lost (once in each flight).

Fix was easy ie I just had to press stop navigating and start navigating again, but ideally I would like that not to happen again.

-SkyDemon
- Mode C/S Enabled +/- 2000
- Short Range
- Mode C/S+Filter Beta
-Audio cable was plugged in to my headset
-Version 20170721
- Paw bought in November 2017
-iPad Air first generation

Could you please advise me of how it can be sorted out? Unfortunately support never replied to me when I submitted a form online on the website.