Windrunner
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My stratus 1 (without an external antenna) receives more towers and displays more traffic when I locate the unit on my left knee rather than on the glareshield. Anyone else noticed this?
The glareshield of an RV is a known bad location for a Stratus 1. Two years ago at AirVenture I found this out from the Stratus folks. They said they don't know why. They gave me a mount to locate it somewhere else. I bolted it to the channel behind the roll bar of my tip up and it works great there.
My issue wasn't heat - I could never get a good GPS lock. ADSB-In worked, but no GPS position. As soon as I moved it, the GPS worked fine.Heat is the reason, I think. A black glare shield and Sun beating down on it cooks it and it may shut down.
My issue wasn't heat - I could never get a good GPS lock. ADSB-In worked, but no GPS position. As soon as I moved it, the GPS worked fine.
Of course on sunny days I did have to watch the temps - often wrapped it in a white piece of paper.
The mount in back solved all of that...
The iPad was talking to the Stratus just fine - got wx info and status info all the time - but GPS was intermittent at best. The number of satellites shown on the GPS 'circle' were mostly red - got a good position when enough turned green (but then they.Are you certain that the issue wasn't the bluetooth connection between the iPad and the Stratus I? I've wondered if that's why the iPad reports no connect.
It's hard to imagine that a 2-3 foot distance with LOS fails, but I can't rule it out.