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4) Tracker Usage

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Guillaume S edited this page May 7, 2014 · 2 revisions

Power Ghettostation and go to "Start Tracking" GS will first waits for a telemetry link. Once it receive data it will displays few values on the first line: P: protocol, possible values are MAV, UAVT, LTM, MSP SATS: number of sats FIX: satfix status

Set Home
Bring your plane/quad/whatever near your Ghettostation, and save the Home Position as requested. It then will ask to set the bearing. This is the reference to north your antenna tracker point at neutral (in degrees).

Set heading
This step is needed for the Ghettostaiton to know where the north is. According to the bearing method you've choosen, it will ask you to:

  • BEARING_METHOD 1: put your UAV 20m away straight to your antenna orientation.
  • BEARING_METHOD 2: manually enter the heading from your smartphone compass.
  • BEARING_METHOD 3: use compass from the uav. Point it to same direction than your antenna.
  • BEARING_METHOD 4: use internal compass from the ghettostation

Fly
Once home position & heading are set, Ghettostation starts tracking. LCD screen will display some telemetry data on the LCD. Latest known GPS position remain displayed here in case of connection loss.

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