Well....

Operational check today.. xponder working fine, Ident working
properly

Hopefully the whole thing certed next week

Ah.. joys of aircraft ownership...

Flew 3 hrs today...smooth air, working trip, 2 hrs flying instead of 5
hrs driving...Cher on the CD player....

Makes working on the weekend almost fun!

Dave


On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:56:49 -0500, Ron Natalie
wrote:

Stubby wrote:

The explanation I received years ago was your transponder replies with
12 bits of switch settings (4 switches with 3 bits each) and one more
that reflects the IDENT button.

The twelve data bits (which are either the transponder code or the
encoded altittude) are always sent along with a beginning and
ending framing pulse. The SPIP is sent 4.35 microseconds
after the last framing pulse only when identing.