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== 1 Feb 2017 - too many mistakes ==

At the last minute the night before I re-lashed together a slightly more robust GPS node than my previous try - node on a PCB this time rather than the [[mat:gpsnode]] lashup I flew last time. While the node was robust, the GPS was attached rather shoddily. Still, it worked. Even had a bit of feedback having a flashing light once the GPS had a lock.

{{:mat:node.jpg}}

The other issue was that I'd moved my ebulobo gateway node to the front of the house as it had better line of sight to the airfield so I thought I might get an earlier message passed. No such luck. Maybe having the antenna right in front of the middle window bar wasn't cleverest. In my defence I did put it there in the dark the night before...

{{:mat:gateway.jpg}}

So test slightly unsuccessful. Next time I think I might fly a transmit only node. It was configured as a repeater so I wonder if the PilotAware unit a couple of feet away regularly transmitting 500mW may have been an issue.

=== Packets received ===

Node was turned on during the whole flight from approx 15 miles away from home and back, via a quick trip to 5000' to see if I could light up a gateway further afield.

Flight 1550Z-1630Z

''packet_id, gateway_id, timestamp, packet, upload_id, processed, rssi, upload_id, origin_id, sequence
28445541;427;"2017-02-01 16:10:43.545";"3hL52.20463,-0.90957,0.0T12.2H60.0V3.62Z0[M4]";22684988;"Processed";-86;22684988;428;"h"
28445520;427;"2017-02-01 16:10:10.609";"3gL52.20463,-0.90957,0.0T12.2H64.8V3.67Z1[M4]";22684971;"Processed";-86;22684971;428;"g"
28445498;427;"2017-02-01 16:09:41.345";"3fL52.20463,-0.90957,0.0T12.1H67.3V3.62Z0[M4]";22684951;"Processed";-81;22684951;428;"f"
28445485;427;"2017-02-01 16:09:14.708";"3eL52.21197,-0.89315,0.0T12.0H69.8V3.65Z0[M4]";22684940;"Processed";-82;22684940;428;"e"
28445466;427;"2017-02-01 16:08:41.819";"3dL52.21197,-0.89315,0.0T11.8H71.5V3.67Z1[M4]";22684924;"Processed";-79;22684924;428;"d"
28445460;427;"2017-02-01 16:08:31.139";"3cL0.00000,0.00000,0.0T11.8H71.3V3.65Z0[M4]";22684919;"Processed";-89;22684919;428;"c"
28445443;427;"2017-02-01 16:07:58.192";"3bL0.00000,0.00000,0.0T11.7H69.6V3.67Z1[M4]";22684906;"Processed";-89;22684906;428;"b"
28445438;427;"2017-02-01 16:07:47.052";"3aL0.00000,0.00000,0.0T11.7H69.1V3.61Z0[M4]";22684900;"Processed";-84;22684900;428;"a"''

I clearly need to fix the altitude parsing bit of the code!
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