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OGN-R PilotAware / P3i Antenna performance

« on: June 03, 2018, 10:43:07 pm »

I have had Enstone running for a  week now, and am very disapointed in the coverage given by the P3i antenna.

It's difficult to judge with low PAW traffic over the last week, but it seems that PWWilmcot has better coverage of Enstone area Traffic overflying Enstone is seen by this station but not PWEnstone.

Extension lead is 10m of RG8X and using the standared 869.5Mhz End fed dipole supplied with PAW Kit. I have tried two antenna, and even made up a second extension with exactly the same results. Cables check out for shorts and poor connections etc. Range seems to be no more than a few KM.

Swapped the end fed dipole for the 'Tuned Low Profile Antenna' and performance is slightly better, but still not good enough.(still on it now)

Am I doing something wrong? I could shorten the extension by a few meters, but this feels to be so far out of what was expected. What does PWWilmcot have that I don't 

Range for the FLARM is good, in fact very good to the South and South West. Both antenna seem to show a bias in this direction, which was a supprise to me.

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OGN-R PilotAware / OGN-R Host Name

« on: May 25, 2018, 11:22:07 am »

Running the config script, we are prompted with the option to change the host name. There is no mention of this in the set up guides and unsure if this should be left as ognpaw?

I ask because if you rename it, you get a message saying Unable to resolve host abcdefg when the services restart.

On sites with two OGN-R to get better coverage, they may be on the same network, so it seems logical to be able to change it?

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OGN-R PilotAware / OGN Station Status

« on: January 31, 2018, 05:54:21 am »

Hi folks,
I seem to recall there was a website with a map, where you could see the status of each OGN station by clicking on on the station. Out would pop a 'balloon with the up time, temp and software version. I cannot seem to find it now.

I am after the temperature of mine so I can see the effect of putting it in an IP67 case.

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General Discussion / Visitor to Enstone 9 Dec

« on: December 09, 2017, 02:28:41 pm »

Long shot, but the C172? That visited Enstone today with a PAW onboard

You have default settings for the hex code and call sign

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OGN-R PilotAware / OGN update of existing station

« on: September 13, 2017, 06:04:03 am »

I was wondering why I was not getting a response to my issue with OGN update, no I see my posting has disappeared, so I am not sure what has happened here?

Trying to update my existing station without wiping the SD card. The process starts off OK with the download and extract, but then I cannot install the update. see attachment for error. Is it the script, or have I done something wrong?

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General Discussion / New Forum Members

« on: August 11, 2017, 04:15:34 pm »

Is someone having issues registering new forum members? Not sure who manages the forum now?
https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=105027

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General Discussion / SOLVED Latest PAW operating instructions not available

« on: July 18, 2017, 10:11:40 pm »

When I go to www.pilotaware.com and try to download the Latest PAW operating instructions  I get

The page you are looking for is no longer here, or never existed in the first place (bummer). You can try searching for what you are looking for using the form below. If that still doesn't provide the results you are looking for, you can always start over from the home page

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General Discussion / OGN-PAW traffic representation

« on: July 02, 2017, 07:28:36 pm »

Traffic over OGN-PAW Station PWThame for the last week. Cub wonders why some see the importance of listening to FLARM traffic!
This is just PAW and FLARM traffic. The colour is controlled by the ICAO code of the aircraft. Note that the playback on Google Earth is a bit ropey.

The application I have written still needs a lot of work, but it takes the data stream from the OGN-PAW station and processes it into a KML file. A weeks file is about 20mb, but will go up massively once I get fitted with the correct antenna. So will the fur-ball of traffic 

http://whmc.org.uk/trail.avi

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General Discussion / Bose A20

« on: May 29, 2017, 09:44:02 pm »

Has anyone had any luck on using the Bluetooth input on these headsets?
I understand there are two BlueTooth cables, one is phone only?

Cheers
Ian

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General Discussion / Mentioned in Flight Safety Extra

« on: April 05, 2017, 11:02:00 pm »

Got my email copy of Flight Safety Extra and there is a bit about airproxes.  PAW mentioned by name

Avoiding collisions – a monthly update from Director UK Airprox Board giving some learning themes for recreational pilots.

Not counting 6 drone/UAV reports that were assessed this month, February’s Board meeting also looked at 15 aircraft-to-aircraft incidents, of which 8 were assessed as having a definite risk of collision (3 x Category A and 5 x Category B).  All 3 of the Category A incidents, and one of the Category B Airprox resulted from head-on encounters where the pilots effectively did not see each other, and none of these encounters had the benefit of electronic conspicuity equipment to assist the pilots in gaining situational awareness.  Collision warning systems are becoming more affordable, and I know that the PilotAware1 system is gaining popularity amongst many GA pilots (other systems are available), so I can only encourage everyone to have a look at what is available and see whether it’s time to invest in something that may well save your life.

The other main themes discussed this month were: poor airmanship decisions in 6 incidents; late sightings/non-sightings in 9 events; and a couple of incidents caused by pilots flying too close to promulgated landing strips and microlight sites that were clearly marked on the map.

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General Discussion / Another close call on camera

« on: March 09, 2017, 06:20:34 pm »

 

https://www.facebook.com/richard.foster.771/videos/10209030280175926/

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General Discussion / Nov 2016 update

« on: December 02, 2016, 06:24:57 am »

I haven't downloaded the file the the lode webpage is still showing 20 Aug 2016 update?

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Technical Support / GPS input from FLARM Mouse

« on: October 23, 2016, 05:41:11 pm »

Hi Lee,
Fiddling around with FLARM and RS232 this afternoon I noticed that the green receive light, on the RS232 cable, would pulse at 1Sec intervals 19 or 20 pulses then stop for approx. 1 minute. On the home screen the GPS-USB messages count also has pauses, but these do not correlate to the status of the green light. I only seem to get a positive count, approx. +20 on GPS messages on the third or fourth refresh, the rest being zero.

I know that The FLARM Mouse is sending messages continuously as I have a 'Y' lead of two RS232 leads and can monitor the output in Hype! terminal on the PC. So this isn't a FLARM issue.

This is very different to the GPS mouse where I get +30 messages every refresh.

Is there an issue?

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General Discussion / Why we need PAW

« on: October 03, 2016, 08:44:38 pm »

Cannot find the original data, so sorry for the post to another forum
https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=101819

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General Discussion / LAA strut speaker

« on: September 06, 2016, 07:50:44 pm »

Hi Guys,
Our Strut has had a speaker drop out for the meeting on October 12th. Would any of the PAW team be available on that date to do a presentation? I did a very brief one early in the project, but much has changed since.
Location is Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Talks normally start at 8pm.

We have Wifi