Hardware issue? Hardly seeing any traffic and radio interference

[sdkellner]

So I couldn't wait for the weekend and headed over to the airfield after work.

Success!!  The ADS-B dongle was at fault.  I swapped it out keeping everything else the same, so the same aerials mounted within the pod; and the attached pics show the results.

Saw lots of traffic, CAT and GA.

Also received a perfectly audible 'Traffic' alert with the traffic exactly where the PAW voice told me to look.

And my radio was fine; no interference.

It really does seem like that dodgy ADS-B dongle was the cause of all my problems.

Thanks for all your help.

Best regards

Stu

[exfirepro]

Stu,

Glad to hear you have finally got things working. I'm pretty sure that is the first SDR Dongle I have heard of going faulty other than a few examples which failed due to overheating early in the development programme, so I guess you were just unlucky.

That's certainly what I would expect to see both on your PAW Traffic Screen and Nav System display. You will probably need to close your filters down a bit for practical routine operation, but leave them fairly open until you get used to the various alerts.

Any probs come back on here or drop me a pm.

Best Regards

Peter

[Ian Melville]

Yey, another one in service 

Thanks for the update