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SBS-1 Procedures Frequent Questions

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• BASICS

o SOFTWARE INSTALLATION o HARDWARE INSTALLATION o REINSTALLING DRIVERS o REINSTALLING DRIVERS ON VISTA MACHINE o FINDING COORDINATES o CONVERTING COORDINATESFROM D, M, S to Decimal Degrees o SETTING NEW HOME LOCATION o LIGHT INDICATION ON THE FRONT PANEL o INSERTING YOUR SETTINGS IN ANOTHER COMPUTER

• ETHERNET MODULE

o CHECKING THE USB LINK BETWEEN THE COMPUTER AND THE SBS-1 RECEIVER

o CHECKING THE NETWORK LINK BETWEEN THE COMPUTER AND THE SBS-1 RECEIVER (ETHERNET MODULE)

• ADD-ONS

o INSTALLING ADD-ONS - SBS-1 POPULATE o INSTALLING ADD-ONS - FLIGHT DISPLAY o INSTALLING ADD-ONS – GOOGLE EARTH

• SBS1e

o SBS1E – UPGRADING THE FIRMWARE o SBS1E – REAR PANEL INFORMATION

• SBS RESOURCES

o DISABLE THE CLICK SOUND


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SOFTWARE INSTALLATION - Insert the Basestation CD-ROM without connecting the SBS-1 Receiver. - The installation program should start automatically. (If does not, navigate the CD-drive and double-click the file “SETUP.EXE”) - Click on the “NEXT” button

- Click on “NEXT” button.

- Click on “INSTALL” Button.


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HARDWARE INSTALLATION

After the software installed you can plug in the SBS-1 receiver. The precise installation method will vary depending of which version of Windows you have installed in your PC. At this point the computer will recognize the receiver and install all drivers automatically. If does not, the method bellow shows a basic installation after the computer recognize the receiver. - Select the option “INSTALL FROM A LIST OR SPECIFIC LOCATION” Click on “NEXT” Button.

- Just point the CD-ROM and click on “NEXT” button.

This can be checked by looking in Control Panel as follows: Control Panel > System Hardware > Device Manager > Universal Serial Bus Devices.


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REINSTALLING DRIVERS - Disconnect the SBS-1 unit from the USB port. - Navigate in the CD-ROM and find the program “FTDIUNIN.EXE” from the root directory.

- To check if the program is compatible with your system, just right-Click on the file and click on “PROPERTIES”.

- Go to the Compatibility Tab, check the box on “Compatibility Mode” and if necessary change to Windows 2000 and click on “OK” button.

- Re-connect the SBS-1 to the USB port and the Hardware Installation Wizard will run. - Follow the instructions from “HARDWARE INSTALLATION” in this document.


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REINSTALLING DRIVERS ON VISTA MACHINES - Please follow the steps bellow to updating the drivers in computers running Vista. - Download the CD ROM kinetic web site http://www.kineticavionics.co.uk/downloadssbs1.php - Go to “ Start / Control Panel / Device Manager” and follow the pictures bellow

- In this point you need point to the folder where you downloaded (in my case “desktop”) - You don’t need choose the file just point to the folder.


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FINDING COORDINATES

1. Go to website http://nearby.org.uk/ (ML&S Shop store location).

2. Insert your post code.

3. Get your Latitude and longitude.

CONVERTING COORDINATES FROM D,M,S to Decimal Degrees Formula: degrees + (minutes + (seconds / 60)) / 60) West and South values are negative. Longitude: 12.15.30 W. 12. (15 + (30/60)) / 60) 30/60: 0.5 15+0.5:

15.5/60: 0.25833 12.25833 since is west:-12.25833


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SETTING NEW HOME LOCATION Click on the Radar->Set View Centre & Bearing menu item.

Enter in the latitude and longitude of the position you want the view centered on (i.e. your new Home position). Click OK.

Click on the Radar->Save Radar Screen View and click on the OK button in the dialog that appears.

Click on “OK” to save the information


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LIGHT INDICATIONS

Red: Power Indication Orange: Cable connection between the computer and the SBS-1 Receiver. Green: Connection between the SBS-1 Receiver and the BaseStation software. Orange: Volatile Memory Read/Write. Blue: Total number of Mode S replies and/or ADS-B packets received per second. 1 flickering LED: < 50 per sec

1 steady LED: 50-100 per sec 2 steady LEDs: 100-200 per sec 3 steady LEDs: 200-600 per sec 4 steady LEDs: >600 per sec

INSERTING YOUR SETTINGS IN ANOTHER COMPUTER Install the Software in the other machine. Go to C:\Program files

Copy the folder Kinetic Just paste this folder overwriting the old one


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CHECKING THE LINK BETWEEN THE COMPUTER AND THE SBS-1 RECEIVER To check the communication between the computer and the receiver execute the program SBS1LinkTester.exe.exe included in the folder: program files/Kinetic/BaseStation (see the image bellow).

If the result is OK your link between SBS-1 and the computer is running without problems.

If the test failed, please reinstall the drivers following the procedure “REINSTALLING DRIVERS”.


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CHECKING THE NETWORK LINK BETWEEN THE COMPUTER AND THE SBS-1 RECEIVER (ETHERNET MODULE)

Checking your connection with the SBS-1e Ethernet Module Using the command PING: Open the “Command Prompt” window Type “PING 192.168.1.170” and you should receive a reply like this if you connection is running without problems.

Example of Unsuccessful Connection

Default IP Address: IP: 192.168.1.170 Port: 10001 Can be changed using the configuration software

IP Address: IP: Depends of your network


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If you are unable to ping the EM from your PC, this is probably because the IP address of the EM (192.168.1.170) is outside the address range being used on your network. To correct this you can either: • Change the IP address of the Ethernet Module:

1) Set your computer IP to 192.168.1.7 for a while. Open your network icon (Control Panel, Network Connections), then Properties, then Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), then Properties If Dynamic IP is checked (Automatic IP address or so) uncheck this, enter the IP Address 192.168.1.170 AND the Network Mask 255.255.255.0, then press OK. Close the Properties window. 2) Start your internet browser and enter http://192.168.1.170. This will open the Xport configuration page.

2) Just click “OK” to go forward in step.

3) Go to NETWORK 4) Enter 192.168.2.170 under IP ADDRESS 5) Enter 192.168.2.1 under GATEWAY 6) Press OK


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7) Check your PORT is 10001 (CHANNEL 1/CONNECTION/LOCAL PORT)

8) Press the button APPLY SETTINGS

9) Wait for the Xport to reboot (and not return!!) 10) Reset your computer IP (see paragraph 1 above) to 192.168.2.7 (or whatever it was) 11) Start your internet browser and go to http://192.168.2.170 12) If you get the Xport Configuration window everything has worked 13) Run Basestation 14) Enter IP 192.168.2.170 to SETTINGS/HARDWARE/NETWORK 15) Select SETTINGS/DATA SOURCE/USE NETWORK 16) Restart Basestation 17) Voila


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• Change your network to use the address range 192.168.1.xxx A) Changing the IP Address Range used by the network is usually quite straightforward, follow the instructions in your router's documentation to set the IP address range starting at 192.168.1.1 and ending at 192.168.1.255. Subnet Mask should be set to 255.255.255.0. CAUTION, if you have any other devices on your network that use fixed or reserved IP addresses, you will need to change these to be in the 192.168.1.xxx address range. B) For more complex networks, where there are more devices with fixed IP addresses, or if you are not comfortable reconfiguring your network, it may be easier to change the IP address of the EM.

• Now just go to your Basestation menu HARDWARE/SETTINGS and setup your software with the

IP Address and Port.

• Go to Settings / Data Source and select “USE NETWORK”

• Restart your Basestation Software to use the new setup.

“Please note the SBS-1e is a static sensitive device please does not handle the antenna when the unit is running”


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INSTALLING ADD-ONS - SBS-1 POPULATE

INSTALLING ADD-ONS - FLIGHT DISPLAY

- Please download in the kinetics web site the files to install SBS-Populate and Flight Display and other improvements to your system.

http://www.kineticavionics.co.uk/downloadssbs1.php

- Extract to your computer and double-click the file “SBS-Resources”


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INSTALLING ADD-ONS – GOOGLE EARTH Download the script file from: http://home.arcor.de/rolf_wilms/earthgate/earthgate.jar Copy earthgate.jar to your Kinetic Folder “C: \program files\kinetic\”

Open a cmd.exe window, navigate to the directory you copied the file type

This starts the HTTP server on port 8080, polling the Snoopy telnet port. In this example I created a batch file with the command and a shortcut for my desktop

The picture shows the output for this command.

java -jar earthgate.jar


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Start Google Earth Then you can add a network link in Google Earth with the code bellow

http://localhost:8080 Setup the “refresh” for the time you want


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After couple minutes you will see the airplanes over the Google Earth screen, refreshing every 3 seconds (in this example). Additional notes: - call sign is shown if present, otherwise the flight id - after 20 seconds without a position update an aircraft is cleared - Java sources are included in the jar This is the link for the forum where I got the instructions: http://www.kinetic-avionics.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2916&highlight=jar SBS1e – UPGRADING THE FIRMWARE Go to Kinetic Web Page and download the latest firmware for the SBS1e. http://www.kineticavionics.co.uk/downloadssbs1.php

Save the 2 files to well know location. DISCONNECT THE ANTENNA BEFORE START THE UPGRADE Right click the file “L_0402_0401_0402_R_300273.kff” and open it using the software “ProgUsbLattice”.


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During the upgrade the screen should be the same.

The program finishes itself. After the upgrade make a reset in the unit.


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SBS1e – REAR PANEL INFORMATION

DISABLING THE CLICK SOUND To stop the click sound using the SBS Resources go to your “ control panel / sound and audio devices / sound TAB” and choose NONE for the “START NAVEGATION” Event

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