WGC Final Report, John Good

On Tuesday, 21 January 2020 00:01:29 UTC+1, Tango Eight wrote:
On Monday, January 20, 2020 at 3:49:03 PM UTC-5, Tijl wrote:

- In your Flarm, set your ICAO 24-bit code to "0". Each time you power up your Flarm, your Flarm-Radio ID will be newly randomly generated.


If so, this is quite the undocumented Easter egg. Can anyone confirm?

T8

It's not undocumented.

https://flarm.com/flarm-firmware-v6-40-released/

It works if you use the online Flarm configuration tool:

https://flarm.com/support/tools-soft...guration-tool/

Quote:

"ICAO 24-bit aircraft address, hexadecimal
Official 24-bit ICAO aircraft address in hexadecimal notation, as issued by local CAA. It consists of six hexadecimal characters (0-9, a-f) and can be obtained from the aircraft papers. Must match the address configured in the Mode-S transponder. If the aircraft does not have a Mode-S transponder, it's possible to leave the field empty to use the device specific radio id. Enter "0" (zero) for random id (not recommended, will make Search and Rescue (SAR) very difficult)."