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Touchdown! Greaser!
Most of the time, my xpdr appears to be working fine. It was just checked out/certified a couple months ago during the most recent annual.
However, recently I have had a couple flights where ATC was not picking up my xpdr (I'm based at a class D airport underneath the San Diego Class B ).
The most recent was yesterday departing for an IFR flight. SoCal departure was not picking me up and cycling the xpdr didn't seem to help. I cancelled while I was still in VMC and returned to the airport. While talking to tower, they mentioned that they started to pick me up at 2000' (1500 AGL).
Before I call the avionics guys and pay them $85 and hour to troubleshoot, does anyone have any ideas what the problem might be?
Does this sound like an antenna issue, xdpr power issue, or is the box about to die a horrible death?
However, recently I have had a couple flights where ATC was not picking up my xpdr (I'm based at a class D airport underneath the San Diego Class B ).
The most recent was yesterday departing for an IFR flight. SoCal departure was not picking me up and cycling the xpdr didn't seem to help. I cancelled while I was still in VMC and returned to the airport. While talking to tower, they mentioned that they started to pick me up at 2000' (1500 AGL).
Before I call the avionics guys and pay them $85 and hour to troubleshoot, does anyone have any ideas what the problem might be?
Does this sound like an antenna issue, xdpr power issue, or is the box about to die a horrible death?