BTW - is there any received wisdom re the pros and cons of the red-box FL@RM unit vs the FL@RM Mouse? I have read a thread here somewhere taht said the GPS antenna in teh mouse is small and is a bit of a poor perfomer - not good if teh mouse becomes your primary GPS source for all the conspicuity and nav app systems, so the red box plus a GPS dongle sounds to me a better idea (but of course more wiring!)
Hi stu,
Your observersions of the antennas is good thinking. For the FLARM redbox, it just needs to be mounted at a position you can conect the RS232 cable to PAW and to get the antenna lead to a position you have described. For the small GPS antenna, mounted in clear vue of the sky. For the question of reliability, after about 20 hours of flight I have never had a dropout or never noticed an inaccurate reading at all, it all works perfectly passing GPS info to my PAW. The GPS antenna is small enough to hide it away. I think the problem was with the FLARM mouse in built antenna., someone may give you the info on that.
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