USA PF Brick question

FWIW (not much....) here's an excerpt from my dump file after changing
pcas and adsb range settings to 9000m and 650m vertical. the
organization of this file is by no means obvious -- it isn't
chronological! My reason for messing with this is that my pcas range
seems to be about 3km in practice.



00011.211 INFO Initializing external config...
00011.211 INFO Initializing Configuration from USB MSD
00011.655 INFO CONFIG: reading file FLARMCFG.TXT...
00011.680 INFO CONFIG: set ACFT to 1
00011.684 INFO CONFIG: set XPDR to 0
00011.692 INFO Setting FLARM ID: DF0077
00011.692 INFO CONFIG: set ID to FFFFF R  ë
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00011.702 INFO CONFIG: set PCASRANGE to 9000
00011.703 INFO CONFIG: set PCASVRANGE to 650
00011.705 INFO CONFIG: set ADSBRANGE to 9000
00011.706 INFO CONFIG: set ADSBVRANGE to 650
00011.709 INFO CONFIG: set NMEAOUT2 to 1
00011.711 INFO CONFIG: 0 command(s) successfully executed
00023.031 INFO OK
00023.232 INFO System configuration:
00023.232 INFO freq = 1
00023.232 INFO cflags = 0
00023.233 INFO ui = 1
00023.233 INFO priv = 0 S  ë
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00023.239 INFO thre = 2
00023.239 INFO range = 20000
00023.239 INFO acft = 1
00023.240 INFO logint = 4
00023.240 INFO vol = 3
00023.240 INFO pilot = undefined
00023.241 INFO copilot = undefined
00023.241 INFO gliderid = undefined
00023.242 INFO glidertype = undefined
00023.242 INFO compid = undefined
00023.242 INFO pilot = undefined
00023.243 INFO nmeaout = 1
00023.243 INFO nmeaout1 = 1
00023.244 INFO nmeaout2 = 1
0 T  ë
ÿÿ #œ0023.254 INFO baud = 2
00023.270 INFO baud1 = 2
00023.285 INFO baud2 = 2
00023.302 INFO ID = FFFFFF
00023.321 INFO pcasrange = 9000
00023.340 INFO adsbrange = 9000
00023.359 INFO pcasvrange = 650
00023.379 INFO adsbvrange = 650
00023.394 INFO xpdr = 0
00023.416 INFO rssi_threshold = 1023
00023.436 INFO rssi_bandwidth = 0
00023.452 INFO modec = 1
00023.471 INFO brightness = 100
00023.489 INFO batterytype = 0


More info:

It looks like (from older logs in the dump) the default settings in
v2.40 appear to be 8000m range and 1000m vertical range for both pcas
and adsb.

The default settings in 2.21beta, which is what we received at 15m
nats, were pcasrange=7408, adsbrange=65535, pcasvrange=610,
adsbvrange=1000

Having tampered this much with it, I think Richard is right: stick
with the defaults unless you have a really good reason to do
otherwise. I doubt very much that changing the pcasrange from 7408
(old software) to 9000 (maximum allowed in new software) is going to
yield the improvement I was looking for.

-Evan Ludeman / T8