Upgrading an Existing OGN Ground Station to Rebroadcast Glider Locations on 869.5MHz.
December 2019.
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FLARM equipped targets will be shown on PilotAware RADAR and also on EasyVFR
SkyDemon etc. if the Flight Bag is connected.
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For the advanced user. There are 3 main processes running.
(
i)
ogn-rf
(ii)
ogn-decode
(iii)
pilotaware
each of these provide logging which can be used for diagnosis. They are accessed in
the following way
Note To see logging from ogn-rf, use the following command.
$ nc localhost 50000
If there ae no error reports then all is good. Error reports will indicate faults.
Note To see logging from ogn-decode use the following command.
$ nc localhost 50001
This will display captured data from FLARM
Note To see logging from Pilotaware, Display Flarm, P3i & MLAT
$ nc localhost 50002
Other Apps to show that the OGN-R is working
There are several Apps that can be used to show historical and real time data from your
OGN-R site. On each site zoom into your local area and check your site progress.
The Open Glider Network at
Spot the Gliders at
Advice is also available at
For Advanced users
The disk image is operated in a safe mode, which means it cannot normally be over written
In order to gain write access type.
$ sudo /root/mount rw.bash
To write protect type.
$ sudo /root/mount ro.ba
sh
The software is running as a service to start/stop the service
$ sudo service rtlsdr-ogn stop
$ sudo service rtlsdr-ogn start
Updating the Software on Your OGN-R Installation
Note onec you have installed the latest software then software and operating system
updating is done
automatically.