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Technical Support / Re: PAW not receiving traffic

« on: June 04, 2021, 01:18:56 pm »

Hi Peter

Thanks.  It's not my aircraft, but the Hexid is 406DAD.

I suspect it is all pointing at antenna placement but wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything else!

Steve

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Technical Support / Re: PAW not receiving traffic

« on: June 02, 2021, 05:54:24 pm »

The aircraft has flown a few times and the reception is poor - the vector page isn't showing much traffic further out than 10km.

The internal antenna kit is mounted on the glare shield at the base of the screen.  Is there anything I should look at other than moving  the antennae?  I'm thinking of moving them further up (maybe mounting them on the side or top of the screen) so that they get a better view.

Thanks

Steve

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Technical Support / Re: PAW not receiving traffic

« on: February 28, 2021, 06:23:54 pm »

We probably won't get a chance to find out until we are able to fly it.  If we still don't see traffic then I will have a play with the antennas.

Thanks to both for your input.

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Technical Support / Re: PAW not receiving traffic

« on: February 28, 2021, 03:34:24 pm »

Thanks - the issue I have us that all of the “opening up” of settings will make no difference if the PAW unit isn’t showing more than a few aircraft on the Traffic page.

We ran the unit first with the antennas on the roof of the truck outside yet hangar.  Didn’t pick up much traffic but thought maybe we were shielded by the hangar.  Installed the unit in the aircraft, positioned it outside away from the hangar, tried a number of different orientations to make sure the antennas had a line-of-sight to London, and still only a few very local aircraft being shown on the Traffic page.

I have got some other antennas kicking about back at base so will maybe try them to see if it is an antenna problem.

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Technical Support / Re: PAW not receiving traffic

« on: February 28, 2021, 11:58:40 am »

I don't think that the setup pages limit what appears on the Traffic page?  Doesn't everything it receives get shown on there, with the limits just affecting what is displayed on your connected device?

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Technical Support / PAW not receiving traffic

« on: February 28, 2021, 11:35:33 am »

New Rosetta install with "internal" antenna kit.  All of the icons on the home page showing "green", power OK, GPS fix etc etc.  Antennas mounted on the glareshield.

The traffic page is only showing two or three very local aircraft - it isn't picking up any of the high altitude CAT traffic that I would expect it to see (this was yesterday (Saturday) at Goodwood, I had a look on FR24 and there was enough out there that I would have expected at least a handful of of airliners shown).

I don't suspect a specific install issue at this stage as it was the same when we got it out of the box for a system check and had the antennas on the roof of the truck.

I did try swapping the antennas around (so that they were connected to the wrong outputs) and picked up a couple of extra aircraft but it wasn't a particularly definitive test of anything.

Any ideas of what to check next time I can get to the aircraft?

Thanks

Steve

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Technical Support / Re: How can I tell if MLAT is working?

« on: November 13, 2019, 06:20:11 pm »

Thanks - will check the traffic screen to see what I'm receiving.

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Technical Support / How can I tell if MLAT is working?

« on: November 12, 2019, 12:01:27 pm »

I'm based at an airfield with an OGN-R station (Popham) but still see more bearingless traffic than I would expect and not a huge amount of traffic with a location.

I'm using Pilotaware "Classic" with the latest software and Skydemon.

How can I check whether I am receiving OGN-R / MLAT traffic?

Thanks

Steve

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Technical Support / Re: PAW Classic not receiving 1090 transponder traffic

« on: November 01, 2019, 02:46:16 pm »

Replaced the ADSB dongle and all works now.  Thanks to everyone for the help.

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Technical Support / Re: PAW Classic not receiving 1090 transponder traffic

« on: October 29, 2019, 05:53:57 pm »

GPS is being fed to the transponder.

I will check the ADSB dongle tomorrow - I think I might have a spare I can try.  It has been unplugged and plugged back in again since this problem started so I don't think that is the issue but will check.

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Technical Support / Re: PAW Classic not receiving 1090 transponder traffic

« on: October 29, 2019, 04:24:00 pm »

Hi Ian

Which one is the "ADSB dongle"?  Is that the USB dongle which the shorter of the two antennas plugs in to (mine is just a bare circuit board with a USB plug at one end and an antenna socket at the other).

Paul - my dongle is just a bare circuit board, but will check the centre pin etc.

Thanks to you both for your suggestions

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Technical Support / PAW Classic not receiving 1090 transponder traffic

« on: October 29, 2019, 06:36:10 am »

I have a PAW Classic which has been installed for most of this year and has been working fine. I noticed that I wasn't seeing much traffic and on investigation found out that that connection for the external 1090 antenna had come undone so connected it back up.  I'm still not seeing 1090 transponder transmissions.  I've tried using the standard antenna, have had the box apart to make sure that the connector isn't broken internally, reconnected all of the connectors etc but still nothing.

Any suggestions?

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General Discussion / Re: Connecting Pilot Aware to SkyView

« on: June 19, 2019, 07:40:37 am »

Swapped the Tx and Rx wires over, all working now!

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General Discussion / Re: Connecting Pilot Aware to SkyView

« on: June 16, 2019, 10:05:31 am »

Thanks all, will have another go at it tomorrow!

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General Discussion / Re: Connecting Pilot Aware to SkyView

« on: June 15, 2019, 10:57:27 am »

Any thoughts on why my setup might not be working?

Cable purchased from link at the top of the thread.

Using serial port 3 on the Dynon, set to "FLARM TRAFFIC", 57600 baud, serial out device = NONE

USB port 2 on the PAW, set to FLARM OUT with a baud rate of 57600.

Next steps are to check the ground connection and maybe try swapping the TX/RX wires over.

I would have posted photos but my attempts have failed!


Thanks

Steve