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Technical Support / Re: Waiting for device

« on: October 28, 2023, 08:47:17 pm »

Ive binned* the Samsung Galaxy A7 Lite because of the disconnects, bought a new iPad Mini, hopefully I can get a good few years out of this one, rather like the last one.





*I've actually given it away
 

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Technical Support / Re: Waiting for device

« on: October 22, 2023, 08:21:43 pm »

Well I wish I had read this thread before buying a “Samsung Galaxy A7 Lite” to replace my old iPad. (Skydemon are no longer supporting anything older than IOS10, so my trusty 11 year old ipad used only for SD, has become redundant as its stuck with iOS9)

anyway, as previously described by others, the Samsung tablet is totally unusable with PilotAware Classic, waiting for device pops up in flight at random times when navigating with SD. Most frustrating and totally unusable.

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General Discussion / PAW with uAvionix Skyecho 2

« on: September 29, 2019, 12:00:12 am »

I’ve been a very happy PAW user for a few years now, however I have changed aircraft and now I have no transponder at all. I’ve reconfigured my trusty PAW as per the instructions, as I am no longer Mode S and ADSB out.  However I feel ‘naked’ as my new airframe has no ADSB position output; Apart from other PAW users, no one can see me out there, so I am looking for the simplest solution to get me seen.  That looks to be a SkyEcho 2.

I wonder, what are the settings that one should make to PAW on the config screen, if a SkyEcho 2 is installed in the same airframe (without a transponder)?

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Memory corruption or SDR aerial fault?

« on: July 07, 2019, 10:04:28 am »

Just an update from yesterday as I was up the mast.
I took the SDR tube off and removed the contents - it was all totally dry inside, no signs of damage to the amalg tape I had put on it a few years ago, all the connectors were pristine as I had amalged everything thoroughly.

I got the lot home and ripped the SDR apart. There was no signs of any moisture or wet inside although I observed strangely some oily type of residue substance where the PCB met the case.  The blue squishy thermal foam was dry.  The heatsink thats stuck to the bottom of the pcb and mates with the case was not fully stuck, but it looked to me like the glue used on its sticky pad was the source of this substance. 
It certainly was not water as I gave it a blast with the soldering iron inside the metal case and nothing evaporated with considerable heating of the case.

The residue, seen along a line where the PCB met the case sides:


The Squishy blue stickon thermal foam removed from the component side and here the underside, where the heatsink was stuck on - identical residue where the pad was "stuck"


The heatsink sticky pad


Im confident there was no water ingress and the residue I am seeing is from the glue thats used on the pad to stick the heatsink on.

Anyway.....
I cleaned it up, replaced everything as should be inside the case and ran it up on a spare Pi with a little aerial attached.  it worked fine.

So - conclusion is that it was the USB extender that had karked it, up the mast. I can not test that as I cut it off to save me time on site.

Ive spoken to keith and I have some cable, adapters and SDRs on the way to get the unit back up and running. I think having the SDR inside rather than up a mast is the best way to go.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Memory corruption or SDR aerial fault?

« on: June 28, 2019, 11:06:06 pm »

Thanks. I built the system a couple of years ago. Our mast is shared with WiFi routers, cameras and lights, It’s located in the middle of the airfield in a shed with the mast some 6-8m above it. Here’s an old picture, since then I’ve installed airfields WiFi long range extenders and new camera up there.


Back then the sdr was up the mast via a usb extension, I was meticulous with weather protection and amalgamating tape wasn’t spared.  I’m a licensed radio amateur of many years and have operated from HF up to 23cm having built aerials and transmitters for the 1.3GHz band.  So I’m very familiar with low loss coax and connector loss and such like.

I was really impressed with the colinear and the Flarm range we got until recently, the unit could occasionally see high gliders right up into the midlands, as well as a lot of local stuff such as parham, ridge soaring and cross channel stuff.

I’m pretty sure the SDR unit up the mast in the tube has died, getting to it and having something to replace it with,  is the challenge for me at the moment.

I’ve left it running with no Flarm receive because I wasn’t sure if the new code would be operational with mode S MLAT transmission on the PAW aerial, although I don’t have the ADSB receive sdr attached.  Main issue is I am a bit tight on money currently, so blowing a load of cash on new aerials and such like, isn’t going to happen immediately, I’ve a few other things I need to sort before this.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Memory corruption or SDR aerial fault?

« on: June 28, 2019, 04:08:16 pm »

Thanks Keith, awaiting 

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Memory corruption or SDR aerial fault?

« on: June 25, 2019, 07:54:06 pm »

And... the little SDR worked. It’s the Flarm one up the mast 

What model is the recommended/preferred/must be used these days?

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Memory corruption or SDR aerial fault?

« on: June 24, 2019, 08:25:35 pm »

Ok, if it is, that’s a right pain as it’s right at the top of a mast.

I’ve got one of these jokers, which I think is an SDR,  I can shove it in the usb slot tomorrow and see what happens

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OGN-R PilotAware / Memory corruption or SDR aerial fault?

« on: June 24, 2019, 06:22:46 pm »

Hi
I’ve noticed that glider reception was pretty non existent since I upgraded the OGN at EGKL. PAW does however work.

We had a period of outage as the network link was down to the site and now that’s all up and I upgraded to the latest OGN code, (changed from Deanland to EGKL as should have been originally) and it’s been running, but a bit deaf on Flarm.

I’m pretty sure I noticed some results on the Flarm SDR and aerial test when I put the upgrade in a few weeks back.......but maybe I didn’t....

Today running the calibration .sh as I had some spare time I noticed the following - not enough data collected, and sometimes I am getting odd memory errors during the test:



What’s the opinion of the gurus on here - the SDR is on ID0, detected (it’s on a USB extension cable to the SDR thats up on the mast, just under the colinear) and plugged into top left USB alongside the RJ45.

My thoughts are the colinear has karked it....as the SDR is being seen.  But what are these memory corruption statements when it does the test?
Advice appreciated.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Latest Software Version

« on: March 18, 2018, 07:27:47 pm »

Still waiting for updated instructions the ones at the top of this forum are still 20170906

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Latest Software Version

« on: March 07, 2018, 03:19:47 pm »

I will produce an updating procedure and include it in the installation instructions later today.

Keith

Thanks Keith - will apply once I work out what I have to do   

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Latest Software Version

« on: March 02, 2018, 10:41:52 pm »

Am I right in thinking there is a new version of OGNPaw software?

I see a 20170906  release mentioned above... but I guesss there may be a 2018 as I noticed mention above?

If there is a new release, I take it the update is as per the above readme.update?

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: PAW station distance not shown

« on: December 31, 2017, 09:32:55 am »

Hi Ben, that’s what I have been seeing since install

Here’s a busy day, with activity quite some distance west with (?) shown.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: New Stations Added

« on: November 19, 2017, 06:04:14 pm »

PWDeanlan (Deanland) has been online for about a week, once I finally got a pair of brackets to mount the two aerials to a 2 and quarter inch mast. Ive seen gliders detected on the OGN site that were some considerable distance away, the site has good line of sight and  the tug and gliders from Parham were occasionally detected by it this afternoon, when I was looking.  Being in close proximity to ringmer I hope that we may see OGN-UP from any local Flarm equipt gliders/Aircraft.

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General Discussion / Re: PAW in action - experiences

« on: December 13, 2016, 02:49:07 pm »

Thanks Peter, for the explanation, its good to know that Flarm is good to go and the experiences you had were with the GPS performance of the flarm mouse.

I fly an aircraft with Mode S and ADSB, so no need for me to remove my GPS USB stick and feed. 

Yes - PAW has been incredibly helpful on quite a few occasions.
Heres the aircraft joining 06 non radio last weekend, there was also another aircraft ahead of me, Mode C not close enough to show.


Also - this was a little fun in the summer - in loose formation catching me up, handy to know your stalker is there



cheers