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Old 10-26-2019, 08:51 AM
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I have the same equipment and they told me the same thing. I went with the non-wired method. Works great. The settings do require some adjustments to get it right. Not sure why they don’t just publish it on their website.
Jerry, please share EACH configuration setting you are using. I too have the EchoUAT that is suppose to be sniffing my 327 transponder. Ive been trying to dial it in since it was installed in July 2018 (16 months ago). Anyone else please also share your working settings.

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Old 10-26-2019, 09:36 AM
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I'll go to the hangar later and connect the app to the device and take a screenshot of the settings. Also, try giving the UAvionix people a call. They were very helpful. Although, I'm not sure why they don't just publish the information. Apparently setting adjustments when sniffing the 327 are very common and almost always necessary.
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Old 10-26-2019, 09:58 AM
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I'll go to the hangar later and connect the app to the device and take a screenshot of the settings. Also, try giving the UAvionix people a call. They were very helpful. Although, I'm not sure why they don't just publish the information. Apparently setting adjustments when sniffing the 327 are very common and almost always necessary.
I need this info too. Thank you.
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Old 10-26-2019, 10:56 AM
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I've spoken twice with the uAvonix support people. They are indeed very nice but the first time I was told settings that didn't work and when I checked with the shop that installed the unit was told they were incorrect. The second time the person was again very nice but I couldn't answer his questions or impliment his instructions because I'm a techno-idiot and therefore couldn't get what he was saying or intelligently answer his questions. I agree, the settings should be included in the installation manual....

Thanks in advance for getting me this information. A screen shot each settings page will be very helpful and very, very appreciated. Please include the advanced settings you can only access by the two finger click on the uAvonix icon.

Robert

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Old 10-26-2019, 02:49 PM
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In retrospect setting up the ECHO to sniff the outgoing 327 pulse (vice hard-wiring) was quite easy but I went through a period of frustration looking for answers. Having followed all the guidance I could find, nothing resulted in a perfect FAA Performance Report. At one point I received a letter from the FAA giving me 45 days to get things right. I thought that I had until January 2020 to get it working, but apparently not. I'm based just outside of the DC SFRA so maybe my proximity opened my transmission to a bit more scrutiny.

Anyway, if someone doesn't beat me to it I'll be happy to post my settings. At Oshkosh 2019 I talked to the uAVIONIX folks at length about getting my setup working with the Garmin GTX327. The easiest way to tell if it's working is to "MONITOR" using the uAVIONIX APP while in flight to ensure that you can read your transponder code. At first that field was blank, and the resulting FAA Performance Reports cited a consistent MODE 3A error. In the end, all I had to do was lower the threshold by using the advanced section of the App. As someone mentioned, you must use two fingers on the App Title to open up that particular page. They'll tell you to lower your threshold by 50 units at a time until you can read the transponder code. In frustration I finally lowered the setting down to 1100 if I remember correctly and all of a sudden things worked and I received a perfect FAA performance report.

I would call the uAVIONIX folks. They were extremely helpful. At Oshkosh they volunteered to take their test set out to the airplane to help dial things in, but unfortunately I did not fly to the event.
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Old 10-27-2019, 01:32 AM
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Old 10-27-2019, 05:06 AM
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I would encourage anyone who desires to hardwire their Echo to their GTX transponder to try wireless first. It works great and doesn't require the complexity and hoop jumping the hardwire route takes. In other words treat an echo install with a GTX the same as pairing with any other legacy transponder installation. Do it wireless.
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Old 10-27-2019, 05:59 AM
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When you monitor the app, will the gps and pressure alt be the same numbers or close?
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Old 10-27-2019, 06:30 AM
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Mine are just close. For example... my Altitude, Pressure read 6400 ft and my Altitude, GPS read 6630 ft.
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Old 10-27-2019, 06:45 AM
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Default EchoUAT w/SKYFY-EXT, ForeFlight GPS Accuracy Question

Quick question....

GPS Accuracy....what are y'all showing as GPS Accuracy using the EchoUAT on the ForeFlight HUD Display bar? I am showing 30 Meters. But when I use the Stratus 2S, I show 1 Meter accuracy on the ForeFlight HUD display bar. Should the EchoUAT give me 1 Meter accuracy as well??

My setup is on an RV-7A, EchoUAT w/ the SkyFyx-EXT, Garmin GTX-330 transponder.

It took me 3 flights to get Transponder Threshold setting dialed in...finally got a good FAA ADS-B Performance report at 1150 as the Transponder Threshold setting.

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