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General Discussion / GlobalSat nd-105C GPS

« on: May 11, 2017, 11:01:42 am »

Hi All,
     I have been having trouble with my ubox GPS for sometime, I even spoke to someone from Pilotaware at the Flying Show last year as it has always been very slow to get a fix even outside and indoors it would seldom work, I was told by the PAW team member that it would not work indoors. Now it has also let me down twice in flight, requiring a reboot to get it back, which is less then ideal.

So having always had a good experience with Globalsat GPSs in the past I ordered a ND-105C it connects via a micro USB port but comes with an adaptor.

Trying it on my PC indoors it got a fix first time and straight out of the packet in around 5 seconds.

It doesn't auto detect when plugged into PaW however i manually set the port and it came up with a fix in around 2 seconds. Great time for a flight test!

the location was working great however the altitude seems around 800ft off comparing it with the inbuilt GPS on both the iPad (Cellular) and iPhones inbuilt GPS which both were close to the altimeter.

Any ideas?

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Technical Support / reboot needed to receive ADS-B traffic

« on: February 21, 2017, 12:35:04 pm »

I  have a slight issue with my PaW, the ADS-B traffic stops, or doesn't start after switching on, to receive any packets no errors seen. A reboot (or sometimes 2) from the web interface sees it receiving again...

the device shows up on the status page and on the config page.

Has anyone else experienced this? its intermittent and I only started to notice it following the Nov 2016 update. it could be hardware, I assume, but it feels more like a driver issue!

Any ideas?

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General Discussion / Pilotaware unit to confirm the SIL & SDA, ADSB Status Values

« on: December 29, 2016, 07:15:39 pm »

Hi
  In the last release of the PaW 20161124 software the labels for the ADSB Status fields have been removed.

Could someone confirm the order of the comma separated values are the same e.g.   Vers, NACp, SDA, NICa, SIL SILs


thanks

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General Discussion / How are people getting enough volume for the voice?

« on: November 25, 2016, 05:02:48 pm »

Hi all,
     I'm sure some months ago I saw a thread about how to route the audio via Bluetooth to the tablet (android in my case) or did I imagine it as I can't find it now!?

I want to use the voice out of the PI so I can hear the warning without looking at the screen all the time. How is everyone else doing this?

I can hear the skydemon terrain warnings ok, so if I can route the sound via my tablet that would work for me!

I have got  a very cheap 3w per channel amp based on PAM8403 and wired it up with some tiny speakers and its fine in the house but I doubt it will be heard in the cockpit!

I have PaW volume set to 10.

I thought about getting or making a lead to go via the headset but it would need to auto mute when transmitting or receiving, I also doubt if there is enough power from the pi's line out to drive the headset!?

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General Discussion / case for all the bits and speaker

« on: November 21, 2016, 05:41:34 pm »

Hi All,
        I have been dipping in and out of PAW since the early days! however yesterday was my first flight with it and it all seemed to work great even picked up an RV8 crossing me (at a safe distance).

So my fear has always been around the slow start time of the GPS, maybe its just my one, but loved flying with it...

And on to my question, is there an off the shelf case anyone can recommend to fit it all in, so the usb bits aren't hanging out? ideally with room for a speaker too?

I found this one but the cost having it printed seems a little high, although it looks ideal.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1350442

thanks

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Technical Support / What is JP2 for and what is the pin out of it?

« on: September 06, 2016, 11:41:34 am »

Hi,
   been away from this for quite a while, but thought it was time to get back into it!

I have a PI2 with PilotAware board connected and all is working well on the ground, I plan to test fly with it once my battery pack arrives sometime next week, I hope!

I was just wondering what JP2 is for and if the pin out is public? had a search but can't find it on the forum.

thanks

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General Discussion / Been away and now back and lost!

« on: December 23, 2015, 02:39:41 pm »

Hi All,
      I have been out of the loop for a while with holidays and working away too, but I'm back now and struggling to put some of the things i'm reading into any sort of sense!

I was trying to see if the range issue with the radio board has been fixed, but could not find the thread, but found a thread talking about a new radio but i can't find details of it, cost and where to buy it...

also another thread talks about a buy back on the old radio's is this operated by the supplier? I have two of the JCurtis boards will they accept the radio back if it has been soldered in or are they taking back the whole thing?

Anyone point me at any information on this please?

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General Discussion / Whats not working ARF or the Rx

« on: October 01, 2015, 01:44:25 pm »

hI,
 I ordered the bits as shown in this thread http://forum.pilotaware.com/index.php?action=post;topic=70.15;last_msg=1057 I connect the Small board to the USB cable and connect a terminal to it at 9600,8,1,n then boot my PA up and I see a few line of corrupted text (like the Baud rate is wrong) on the terminal running on the PC and then nothing! I get the same "pattern" of text received each time i cold boot PA.

I only see the lines of text when cold booting the PA box. So is the PA not transmitting or is the dongle on the PC not receiving displayable text!

The PA log shows connected to the ARF at 9600 and transmitting ever 2 seconds approximately...

the tex i see on the terminal is:

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General Discussion / DVB-T R820T2 Works

« on: September 15, 2015, 12:03:59 pm »

Hi All,
     Just building my first PilotAware and as I had a R280T2 I thought I would try it, it works with no changes

software reports it as a R820T so in case I was sold a dud I opened it up and the chip is labeled R820T2.

It is said to have less drift and better reception then the R820T.

I'm not completing the build until I have the board from @JCurtis and the USB GPS, can't wait!

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General Discussion / Trying to get my head around this!

« on: September 10, 2015, 12:17:25 am »

This sounds very good, well done.

A few questions if I may!
I fly a microlight with a Mode S transponder BUT it is not connected to a GPS, will this interfere with the transponder? Do I still use my transponder?
My assumption is I do, else how would I squawk the correct codes.

does it have an inbuilt GPS or does that come from Skydemon? Or does this system not use GPS?


I have PI2 If i build my own does this work with a PI2?

I also have an RTL820T2, can this be configured to work?

Sorry for all the question, if there is a detail description of how it all works that may help my understanding!?

Thanks