Hi Paul,
Yes, I realised Bob hadn’t taken screenshots, but just wondered if he had
looked at the Traffic screen as well as seeing the greens and the amber 1090 on the Home Screen during his last flight. That would help identify whether the issue is definitely with PilotAware as opposed to the Nav software/display settings - i.e. 1090 Traffic on Traffic Screen = A Working PAW. No traffic on Screen might just mean ‘No Traffic’ - though I think that unlikely.
You are correct, Amber indicates that the 1090 software is ‘running’, but has received no traffic over the last period of something like 15 seconds (or perhaps it is 5 - I forget the exact figure). That would certainly imply that the SDR wasn’t completely ‘dead’ or the indicator would show red, but the SDR might still be
faulty - which would also account for the brief traffic reports referred to by Bob earlier and the fact that it seems to work for a short while after a reboot - or the problem could be with the antenna or cable.
It is of course possible that the problem could lie elsewhere, such as with the motherboard, software or with the Nav System - though other than extremely tight ‘show within vertically’ limits (which I’d like to think Bob would have checked for by now), I can’t think of what Nav Settings would prevent display of ANY 1090 Traffic. In any event, without access to all the facts as yet, it makes sense to eliminate the most likely issues first (in the absence of any evidence to the contrary it’s relatively quick and easy to try another SDR/antenna especially as these are known issues with some older PAW Classics).
Thanks for the prompts though, help is always appreciated
Hopefully Bob will clarify the position shortly and we can move forward.
Best Regards as Always
Peter
