X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-SpamCatcher-Score: 30 [X] Return-Path: Received: from [69.171.58.236] (account rob HELO [144.54.59.3]) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPSA id 1088086; Mon, 01 May 2006 22:38:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4456C618.80706@Logan.com> Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 22:38:16 -0400 From: Rob Logan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060405 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Weather avoidance frustration References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Mike Mahar who did the due diligence of how and where to put the spherics elements. the antenna on Mahar's old plane is in the tail on its own carbon shelf and works much better once its was installed upside down so the strikes were on the correct side of the aircraft, also it uses the bootstrap from the HSI to swing the map quickly with heading changes... (if Jack still has the king HSI) this is a major plus and has lead to some negative experiences on incorrectly installed wx500 in CFS hardware without slaved heading too. > on the ground with 0 BER or Bit Error Rate. > in the air my BER goes to about 8 if it isn't 200. hmm, sounds like there is some nose that's being injected into the system.. see the "avionics black art" posts. also note there was a bug in BER reporting on 6.0A3 or lower software This bug didn't effect WSI reception or drawing, but BER reported in the faults page had a byte ordering issue. (cosmetic) > I still don't have Lightning showing on the list. Lightning is a free option, but you MUST call to have it added to your account, it can't be added online. I use the stock WSI antenna mounted outside the aircraft with a low loss 2' coax connection to the box. (yea, I'm the guy that mounted the xbow500 in the center of the baggage compartment to "fix" early magnatometer issues) wsi fails if I do several rolls in a row, but never more than 5mins (full cycle is 15mins) I did see it black out for 15mins for the first time last friday at 3pm EST, but after landing I hit the wsi website and noticed they had a system wide failure so no one was getting anything. I've been extremely pleased with onboard wx, it has changed the way I fly. Sierra Hotel 18ship: http://rob.com/pix/pkb/P1010363 Rob