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Technical Support / Re: Intermittent GPS dropout on FX

« on: April 30, 2025, 09:39:05 pm »

Sorry, missed the video...

It looks like the FX is changing between internal and external GPS antenna.

At the risk of being slapped for being impudent, is the SMA connector for the GPS antenna fully done up and nothing in the cable damaged?

My guess is the FX uses the internal antenna when no external is detected, and a loose or poor connection here could give issues...

A proper PAW person will be along shortly with the right answer...

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Technical Support / Re: Intermittent GPS dropout on FX

« on: April 29, 2025, 08:40:42 am »

Can the FX unit itself see the sky? You can test by unplugging the external GPS if so, and seeing if the internal GPS performs any better...

Worth looking at the status page on 192.168.1.1 on the FX itself, to see if the GPS has really lost lock?

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General Discussion / Re: Map of ATOM stations

« on: April 23, 2025, 12:26:56 pm »

my transponder transmissions weren't picked up by  PWSpitfire (Goodwood), PWEGHN and PWIOWPARA.

Could be the lack of line of sight?

PWIOWPARA is being fixed at the moment.

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General Discussion / Re: Map of ATOM stations

« on: April 10, 2025, 09:09:19 am »

Thanks,
The Popham area and south towards IOW and along the coast ( east and west).
Tony

You simply need to use your mouse or finger (on mobile/tablet) to move the map to the desired area... and you can zoom with the scroll wheel or click the joystick symbol bottom right...

Marked up in attachment with Popham.

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Technical Support / Re: Internal antenna orientation

« on: April 10, 2025, 09:00:10 am »

Vertical, please see the extract. The picture you refer to just shows the equipment in the package.

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Technical Support / Re: Internal antenna orientation

« on: April 09, 2025, 08:30:14 pm »

Please confirm, the remote internal (di-pole) antenna sold by PilotAware has to be mounted *vertically*? I.e., the two arms of the di-pole oriented up and down, not left and right?

Destructions are here for the antenna mounting:

https://global-uploads.webflow.com/5d56c24810fbfdbe08b488cd/5f8d962f2cdfb8d47c5fa485_2020%20Installation%20Instructions%20Internal%20Kit%20.pdf

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Technical Support / Re: Power socket on Rosetta

« on: April 09, 2025, 08:28:27 pm »

Should we consider hardwiring the power cable to the circuit board?

There are instructions elsewhere to hard wiring the power directly in, but again, for technically able, please don't destroy your PAW in the process of soldering if you are not sure, or break it trying to get it open.

Unlike a normal Pi there is a daughter board in the case with the main RF stuff on it.

I'm wondering if using a proper electrical contact cleaner spray will solve your problem, but again, it's a risk... from memory, the case is clipped together.

IF you replace the Pi motherboard you will need to get an update to the licence before the software will work again...

I use this for cleaning contacts and fibre ends in broadcast, but it's your call:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285425334571

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General Discussion / Re: Map of ATOM stations

« on: April 08, 2025, 02:23:34 pm »

Is there a map available showing the location of the ATOM ground stations?

Have a look here, it is not an official map but you will get an idea:

https://playback.pilotaware.com/playback/groundstations/?

Filter your Vector by date and view the flight for the same period here by setting the right ICAO code, date, time and type of EC.

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General Discussion / Re: What is a Bus_van?

« on: April 05, 2025, 09:57:54 pm »

The owner of that ground station is a developer, and has an app for paragliding EC.

In that flavour of EC, where EC is used for tracking and retrieve after cross country flying, the Bus_van or any other retrieve vehicle as a slightly different profile within the app.

Not sure how the retrieve vehicle is getting into the system, it may be a FANET beacon or via mobile broadband, like SafeSky, or any of the PG apps.

Look for XCGuide on Android for more info.

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Technical Support / Re: Track file discrepancies

« on: March 21, 2025, 07:41:28 pm »

Thank you Steveu. I flew yesterday, was tracked fine by ground stations but the track file showed a sudden excursion after lift-off near B to the middle of the North Sea! I'll try a new card; please remind me - do I just plug it in or do I have to register it in some way?

There are destructions on the PilotAware site. If you use this but use a fresh card instead of reformatting the old one:

https://www.pilotaware.com/knowledgebase/manual-software-update

Make sure you have all the details copied from the old card. If you can't access it then find the licence number from your last renewal, other stuff should be easy to find out. Do not forget to sort out call sign and ICAO code!!!

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Technical Support / Re: Is my Pi bust too

« on: March 21, 2025, 07:27:19 pm »

Thanks for the suggestions so far nothing seems to improve. Its got me Beat! Tried back at the aircraft and It just drops WIFI connection. It just refuses to stay connected. It now also drops connection at home too.  I've just about given up with it.

I've just noticed the Red And Green lights on the Pilot Aware transmitter board have stopped flashing alternate now the connection is lost (not PI)

PI Board now just has Red Light and no Green.

Richard

Did it connect properly at home before?

I'd be tempted, if you've got it at home, to plug a monitor into the HDMI socket and see if it gets to a login screen at the end of the boot up.

If it doesn't, get a fresh SD card and install the software onto that, followed by licence key entry.

Then try again. Home router cnnection can be a problem if your router is using the 192.168.1.1 address for itself.

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Technical Support / Re: Track file discrepancies

« on: March 20, 2025, 09:06:02 am »

Than you Peter. G-DENS, 40263C. Is a fixed amount of card space allocated to track files and would overwriting when full cause a temporary dropout?

I'd put money on it being the SD card overall.

If they get very cold then they fail to respond properly. They are also not the most reliable of media.

It might be worth considering a brand new card?

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Technical Support / Re: RH Light stays blue

« on: March 20, 2025, 08:48:23 am »

Sometimes there is the 192.168.1.1 conflict - without seeing your network topology its not possible to say if this is an issue or not.

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Technical Support / Re: Is my Pi bust too

« on: March 06, 2025, 04:14:56 pm »

Can your try with another device? Any friends with Android phones?

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Technical Support / Re: Is my Pie Bust?

« on: February 28, 2025, 08:01:17 pm »

Progress has been made. I have managed to connect to iPhone and enter all details and Key, No Problem.

The problem now seems to be that it will not connect to iPad Mini Gen2 (I know I need an upgrade) but its all worked perfectly up to the new Pilotaware Update. Connection to home Wifi works fine browsing web no problem. Changed to wifi Pilotaware hotspot and unable to open setup pages. I will take it back to the aircraft next week as all antennas are there so I can not fully test here at home.

Richard

You need to be wary if using the PAW at home and connecting it to your home router. 192.168.1.1 is often the router's own address, and an IP conflict can occur.

Additionally if the iPad changes back to your home Wifi and the router is on 192.168.1.1 it may not access it but not say it is not there?

A lot of Apple stuff needs to be told to stay on a network with no internet access, rather than auto connect to something else...

Is the iPad trying to connect to an https URL as Peter warned about?

If another device can connect correctly to the PAW and show pages, and the iPad does not, then the iPad is faulty or its IP set up is incorrect...