On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 8:30:04 PM UTC-4, Charlie Flagg wrote:
Hello Dan, Paul, Kirk and KM,
Following up on the GPS issue I found a pinch in the GPS cable. Should
have spotted that early on but in my defense, all the problems coincided
with attempts to update all the firmware. And I have 20+ year old GPS
units that are fine. Well, I know a lot more about these units now than
before thanks to you.
Thanks again, Charlie

At 14:33 25 August 2016, K m wrote:
On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 6:00:06 AM UTC-6, Charlie Flagg wrote:
Hello Kirk, Dan and Paul,
Thanks for the suggestions. Updated the BF to 3.4 and got the same
result. Perhaps the GPS has died as Kirk suggested although that would
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e
rather unlikely. I'll check it out.
Charlie
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At 23:06 24 August 2016, kirk.stant wrote:
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 8:15:05 AM UTC-5, Charlie Flagg
wrote:
The Butterfly shows
two red squares while the LX9000 shows the correct PF serial number
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firmware version, 6.06, but no nearby aircraft tracks.
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Perhaps the GPS antenna is bad? Easy enough to try another one. With
no
GPS you will get the two red squares.

Kirk
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Charlie,
You have not mentioned anything about the LED status lights on the PF
Core.=
What do you see when the unit is on? From the Manual

GREEN: Core operates normally
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AMBER
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up to 20s after power ON: start-
up sequence
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Permanent RED: Error condition, no operation possible (e.g. no
GPS=
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receptio
n, low voltage)
=EF=82=A1
Permanent=20
AMBER
: Warning cond
ition, operation possible (e.g.
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database out of date)
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RED/GREEN flashing: on
-going data upload/download with USB memory =20
stick
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OFF: no power

Also from the manual,

Indications while reading FLARMCFG.TXT files:
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One long GREEN f
lash: USB stick detected=20
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One short GREEN flash for each command executed successfully
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One short RED flash for each command causing an error
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FLARMCFG.TXT in that case)

If this doesn't offer help try plugging in another GPS antenna.


Fix the cable by shortening it using 3U's instructions.