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Technical Support / Re: Just fishing for ideas....ADSB out not being read by PAW
« on: May 03, 2020, 09:53:30 am »
Quote from: tnowak on May 03, 2020, 08:00:10 am

He no longer has that installation now as he upgraded using Trig equipment.


I accept Paul's point that this is not really PAW, however, any community is in a strong position to modify the behaviour of commercial entities by acting as a community.

We need to support those whose products work out of the box, those who promise software or firmware upgrades to get their products to work as desired need to have incentives to deliver, a drop in revenue until the upgrades are done ticks a box for me.


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Technical Support / Re: Just fishing for ideas....ADSB out not being read by PAW
« on: May 03, 2020, 09:52:06 am »
Quote from: Admin on May 03, 2020, 09:49:06 am
Quote from: tnowak on May 03, 2020, 08:00:10 am
The only issue was his ground speed, as seen by FR24 and similar, was it varied considerably.
The reason for this, is that the funke does not emit the ground speed when using non certified Gps
No idea how funke came to this decision

Assume it has something to do with SIL=0 and assuming that the ADS-B out is going to be screened out by a huge majority of receivers, then they got into the "why bother?" situation.

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Technical Support / Re: Just fishing for ideas....ADSB out not being read by PAW
« on: April 29, 2020, 11:50:55 am »
Maybe those in the know would like to post a thread giving a list of transponders that are known to give the sort of service with PAW that we need.

The wall of wallets often works well in persuasion, and is better than asking nicely for post purchase support.

Please may we have details of the recalcitrant transponder. We are already aware than Fünke seems to be a brand to avoid.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: METAR feature in latest software??
« on: April 18, 2020, 03:44:36 pm »
Quote from: Vic on April 18, 2020, 02:50:58 pm
Current  METAR upload to Skydemon from Groundstations ..now wouldn't that be something!!?   :)

Skydemon already gives weather displays if connected to the Internet - we sacrifice the Internet for the wireless connection to the PilotAware.

Another option could be for there to be a METAR page to look at from the PAW Traffic display, one button for showing the local METARs.

It's interesting that a sister network, the Burnair Skynet in Switzerland, a FANET based network already has weather to upload to the Internet and to all instruments running the FANET protocol.

Weather info here:

https://www.burnair.cloud/?layers=lz%2Cto%2Clp%2Cpz%2Cfp%2Cna%2Cle%2Cca%2Cvw%2Ccc%2Ctt%2Cpt%2Ctl%2Ctp%2Cpp%2Cmp%2Cw-ch-jb%2Cw-ch-wp%2Cw-ch-uw%2Cmw%2Cmf%2Cmrr%2Cw-ch-wr&visibility=off%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Con%2Con%2Con%2Coff&base=bli#10/46.6603/8.1498

Ground station locations:

https://www.burnair.cloud/?layers=lz%2Cto%2Clp%2Cpz%2Cfp%2Cna%2Cle%2Cca%2Cvw%2Ccc%2Ctt%2Cpt%2Ctl%2Ctp%2Cpp%2Cmp%2Cw-ch-jb%2Cw-ch-wp%2Cw-ch-uw%2Csng%2Cw-ch-wr%2Cmw&visibility=off%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Coff%2Con%2Coff%2Coff&base=bli#9/46.8705/8.5062

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: METAR feature in latest software??
« on: April 17, 2020, 10:57:20 am »
The METARs screen is very useful. I just need to be more familiar with ICAO codes.

As a Kent strip I'm getting METARs from nearby French airfields.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: OGN-R/Atom GRID - updating the underlying Raspbian OS
« on: April 17, 2020, 10:53:38 am »
Thanks Lee, will therefore apply standard engineering test of "If it's not broken, don't fix it, just leave well alone".

Out of interest, if I ran the re-install script would it keep the settings for that install?


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OGN-R PilotAware / OGN-R/Atom GRID - updating the underlying Raspbian OS
« on: April 16, 2020, 06:43:58 pm »
I wondered how the Raspbian OS gets up dated, I ran apt-get update at the command prompt and it seemed like a lot of packages were out of date and needed an update. I was too cowardly to run apt-get upgrade as I was afraid it would break something.

I hadn't looked into the depths of apt to see if there was any pinning or anything else that would prevent the updates that could break the ground station software.

What is the policy on underlying OS updates?

Can we run them with impunity, do we need to have some sort of pinning in place or should we leave well alone?

I'd have thought we should keep the underlying OS up to date?


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General Discussion / Re: Development of PAW
« on: April 07, 2020, 12:41:26 pm »
Quote from: PeterG on April 07, 2020, 09:55:09 am

The last update was around 10 months ago and, to be honest, I haven't been able to use some of the new features (the multilateration doesn't seem to work for me in the Far SW, probably as we have fewer receivers). I rarely see Mode C traffic, even when I am flying alongside them. I seem only to pick up Mode S, ADSB and PAW.

Receivers need to be OGN-R/ATOM GRID to uplink the Mode-S stuff received/contributed by MLAT via the P3i frequency. Not all ground stations are ATOM GRID/OGN-R.

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General Discussion / Re: RSS feed for this forum
« on: April 07, 2020, 08:49:49 am »
Quote from: Moffrestorer on April 07, 2020, 12:42:04 am
Thanks for the heads up. Just need to work out how to implement it for myself.

Download QuiteRSS. Windows/Mac/Linux.

Look for the RSS link/symbol on websites. Copy and paste it into QuiteRSS, often the copy action alone is enough, when you click the  "Add" button the copied link is already there.

If there is no RSS link try the home page anyway.


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General Discussion / Re: RSS feed for this forum
« on: April 06, 2020, 11:59:56 am »
Quote from: Moffrestorer on April 06, 2020, 11:08:02 am

Any chance you could elaborate for the rest of us?


You can either visit a huge number of web sites each day to see if there is anything new, or you can use an RSS Reader, which looks at a number of sites you have listed or loaded in it, and from them it pulls the new content only, and offers it to you.

This means you can have all your news, forums and other web stuff in one place. Not all web sites support RSS, and vBulletin forums are appalling for their suport, or don't have but otherwise, broadly speaking, it's a big asset especially if you have to keep tabs or news or products web sites.

Wikipedia entry for RSS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

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General Discussion / RSS feed for this forum
« on: April 05, 2020, 06:39:33 pm »
Just found the RSS feed for this forum, superb, thanks, makes it much easier to keep up with developments.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: WiFi
« on: February 18, 2020, 10:57:48 pm »
Quote from: peter.seddon on February 12, 2020, 10:59:11 am
My best estimate is about 12 to 16 GBytes a month which is too steep for the club to sustain as there is a wired receiver a couple of miles away.

On GiffGaff we have £12/month is 10GB data.

£15/month is 15GB data

£20/month is 40GB data

All Pay as You Go.

Three, £23/month is 15GB.

Other networks cost more.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Using screen connected to the Pi to run 360 Radar
« on: December 27, 2019, 05:25:57 pm »
Reporting back:

I swapped the Pi2B for a Pi3B, plugged everything into the Pi3B except the WiFi dongle as the Pi3B includes WiFi. I moved the SD card across, and booted up.

Bingo, 360 Radar display. Configured the display how I wanted it, then shut down Chrome so it memorised the set up.

On next boot, everything is happy. I have 360 Radar and the METAR screen on a loop, 45 seconds of each.

I'm using Raspian Buster standard version.

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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: Using screen connected to the Pi to run 360 Radar
« on: December 27, 2019, 12:23:39 pm »
I'm running a Pi2B in kiosk mode and am unable to get the 360 Radar screen up. I get the header but nothing else.

It's running Raspbian and I'm going to assume that there's also insufficient grunt, so I'm going to swap it out for a Pi3B.

I'm going to be daft and swap the SD cards over and hope...

Will report back.




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OGN-R PilotAware / Re: PilotAware and OGN-R in MF this month
« on: December 13, 2019, 06:35:08 pm »
Quote from: Ian Melville on December 08, 2019, 09:38:58 pm
MF ? Is that the BMAA magazine?

Yes.

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