On 09/16/2014 10:40 AM, w9ya wrote: > Yeah, last weekend I had what appeared to be (very) low-level r.f. from > the tele-mega in idle/horiz./flight-line mode. Still dunno why, and the > first thought was something absorbing the r.f. .... but your report is > interesting v/v having the same/similar issue as I also got full r.f. > when the unit was in pad/vert./flight mode. > > Set-up/prep took 4x as long.....grin, but once it was ready to fly, > things went A.O.K......software in the tele-mega was 1.4.x ..... > > es vy 73 de;
That is interesting, and does sound similar. I didn't really notice the problem in idle mode, but I did in pad mode. I never did fly because it would have gone out of site (5000+ ft) and I didn't want to risk loosing it. A couple things that I don't think are the problem. 1. I don't think I had a low battery as I had just charged it and it indicates good charge. 2. I don't think it is a firmware issue in that I had not upgraded since I last flew it a couple months ago with no problem. I would not discount a possible antenna problem, ether on the altimeter or the ground station. I did not visually see a problem, but that is one of the things I plan to test more completely. Steve -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Saner <[email protected]> KD0IJP Andover, Kansas USA _______________________________________________ altusmetrum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gag.com/mailman/listinfo/altusmetrum
