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okei 09-05-2015 12:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sprucemoose (Post 1011743)
I too have had hit and miss success with Pi Filler for Mac. Try ApplePi Baker, which does the same thing and seems to work more reliably.

http://www.tweaking4all.com/hardware...pple-pi-baker/



Pi Filler works great for me. I found that the trick was to not insert the SD card until it gets to the point where it says "Looking for SD card..." Otherwise it won't find it on my MacBook Air.

roadrunner20 09-05-2015 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by okei (Post 1011781)
Pi Filler works great for me. I found that the trick was to not insert the SD card until it gets to the point where it says "Looking for SD card..." Otherwise it won't find it on my MacBook Air.

Thank you Okei.
That did the trick. It found the SD card and the image has been loaded.
I'll try the bootup later on tonight.

I really appreciate your help on this. :)

petehowell 09-07-2015 03:33 PM

Stratux goes up North
 
Quick lunch trip to Superior gave me a chance to try out the Gizmo. Pretty impressive..... some captioned pics in the link

The Gizmo and IFlyGPS.............


Traffic!


Good Reception - 6 Towers...........

Scrabo 09-07-2015 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by petehowell (Post 1012283)
Quick lunch trip to Superior gave me a chance to try out the Gizmo. Pretty impressive..... some captioned pics in the link

The Gizmo and IFlyGPS.............


Traffic!


Good Reception - 6 Towers...........


So you are the iFlyGPS user....:D. But serious surprised you have to extend the antenna that much to get good UAT data rates, mine is not extended at all and surprised me with the rates

ChiefPilot 09-07-2015 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Scrabo (Post 1012285)
So you are the iFlyGPS user....:D. But serious surprised you have to extend the antenna that much to get good UAT data rates, mine is not extended at all and surprised me with the rates

I flew mine from South St. Paul MN to Hutchinson KS and back on Friday, and extending the antenna at all had negative consequences on the reception. My antenna is stuck to the side of the slider frame, antenna vertical.

I bought a dedicated 978MHz antenna, and as a quarter wave antenna it is quite a bit shorter than the collapsed "stock" antenna is. Will try that next, but the existing antenna was quite usable - always at least three towers visible on the trip I mentioned above, with usually five or six and as many as nine at times.

humptybump 09-07-2015 05:17 PM

Hi everyone,

I'm contributing to the Stratux project for the WebUI. I'd love your input on what you want in the web interface (and a brief detail of why). The VAF site is not the forum for that work. So ...

I'd like to have as many of you who wish, post over on the reddit subgroup for Stratux. I've already defined a few VAFers. Thanks! The developers and a broad range of users are active in that corner of the Internet.

If you have ideas, suggestions, or even issues, please share on the reddit subgroup.

Over the next 2-3 weeks, we hope for stability as well as some big additions. I (we) look forward to your input.

Thanks!

petehowell 09-07-2015 05:35 PM

978 antenna
 
I have some mcx connectors coming in the mail to allow me to make a properly sized antenna. I was surprised at the extension as well, but it was repeatable in the plane and on my back porch.

I was always able to meet or better the reception of my GDL39.

ChiefPilot 09-07-2015 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by petehowell (Post 1012324)
I have some mcx connectors coming in the mail to allow me to make a properly sized antenna. I was surprised at the extension as well, but it was repeatable in the plane and on my back porch.

I was always able to meet or better the reception of my GDL39.


Stuff like this is why I think RF engineers are akin to voodoo witchdoctors. Anything related to RF seems to me to be black magic of the darkest kind :)

humptybump 09-07-2015 06:09 PM

Funny you should mentions RF engineers. I have a dear friend who is a voodoo doer.

We talked at length about the antennas and I concluded that a half-wave was the way to go since we are "receive only" and there is no need for a ground plane on a receive-only antenna.

A half wave antenna for 978Mhz is close enough to 5-7/8" as we want it to be.

Those voodoo doers are a precious commodity.

fr0gpil0t 09-07-2015 06:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by humptybump (Post 1012315)
Hi everyone,

I'm contributing to the Stratux project for the WebUI. I'd love your input on what you want in the web interface (and a brief detail of why). The VAF site is not the forum for that work. So ...

I'd like to have as many of you who wish, post over on the reddit subgroup for Stratux. I've already defined a few VAFers. Thanks! The developers and a broad range of users are active in that corner of the Internet.

If you have ideas, suggestions, or even issues, please share on the reddit subgroup.

Over the next 2-3 weeks, we hope for stability as well as some big additions. I (we) look forward to your input.

Thanks!

As the project uses dump1090 - is it possible to turn the dump1090 web server on so when not in the plane using foreflight, I can use it to display traffic ?


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