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General discussion forum / Random restarts

« on: 2013-05-05, 01:33:30 »

For some reason my remotely operated Icom 706MKIIG has been restarting randomly (just like I turned it off, then quickly back on) over the last few days.  It has done it twice today.  I have not had this happen before.  I installed 2.71 last week and am wondering if there is a problem with the new firmware or is this some other problem that coincidentally has started about the same time as the firmware upgrade.

Is anyone else that is using the IC-706 remotely seeing this problem?

Thanks,

Joe W4WT

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General discussion forum / Re: Icom 706MkIIG has no audio out at panel

« on: 2012-12-22, 00:04:17 »

I couldn't really find anything that looked bad but I decided to cut the end off and start over.  With a new RJ-45 end soldered on, everything is working as it should now so something weird was going on.

Thanks for your help,

Joe W4WT

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General discussion forum / Re: Icom 706MkIIG has no audio out at panel

« on: 2012-12-21, 17:46:37 »

No Ideas?

Joe W4WT

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General discussion forum / Re: Icom 706MkIIG has no audio out at panel

« on: 2012-12-17, 18:41:31 »

No, it's not broken (jumper 3, I assume).  I checked it and all the rest of the jumpers) and it was good.  I decided to replace it anyway but still no audio from panel unless I plug in the speaker cable.

Additional info:  If I do not have the speaker cable hooked up, I hear hum from the panel.  When I first turn on the 706, the meter scale is pegged out and I have to slightly rotate the RF gain knob to clear that.  Once that clears, if I turn the volume knob, I then hear sound from the 706 transmitter body speaker.  The output of the panel still has a hum and other noises coming out of it.  Once I plug in the speaker cable, the 706 powers up correctly, no hum, and I have clean audio from the panel and do not get the s-meter pegging out on power up.  Hope this helps.

Joe W4WT

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General discussion forum / Icom 706MkIIG has no audio out at panel

« on: 2012-12-17, 05:09:06 »

I have a strange thing happening.  I just got an IC-706, made up the cables, hooked it up to my RRC-1258 MKII boxes as per the instructions, pushed power on on the 706 panel and I have no audio coming from the panel UNLESS I put an audio cable from the back of the IC-706 transmitter unit and into the speaker jack of the "radio" RemoteRig box.  Then all works fine.  Other than the lack of audio, everything works perfectly!

This appears to be a RemoteRig problem.  If I put the two cables I made together with a 2xRJ45 connector to connect the panel with the radio, I have audio just fine coming out of the panel.

Any ideas or is there something I can check?

Thanks,

Joe W4WT

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General discussion / char by char option

« on: 2012-04-13, 03:56:01 »

Roland, thank for the new version (1.5,1.51).  It looks like you have cleaned the software up nicely!  Many programs that didn't work previously now work including N1MM rotor control software.

I have a question about the "char by char" option.  This selection says "avoid this" but if we shouldn't use it what are we to use to control a rotator or other serial device?

Thanks,

Joe W4WT

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General discussion / Re: Micro software version 1.2.1

« on: 2012-03-28, 04:39:47 »

Thanks Roland.  Got it installed and working.

Joe W4WT

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General discussion / Micro software version 1.2.1

« on: 2012-03-26, 22:15:39 »

Roland, I was trying to install 1.2.1 in a 32 bit machine (I have the 64 bit version on my other laptop) but when I went to download it you have put up 1.1.2 rather than 1.2.1    Version 1.1.2 doesn't work well at all.  Could you put up 1.2.1 until the new version is ready?  I'm trying to set up a remote operation for a friend that is in town for a couple of days.  Thanks,

Joe W4WT

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General discussion forum / Re: FSK

« on: 2012-03-14, 00:03:28 »

Oh!!! (light bulb goes on).  For some reason, I had read something in the forums that made me think I must select COMFSK for the "USB DTR as CW" option rather than Com0,1, or 2.

Thanks, I'll give it a try and see if I can get RTTY going soon.

73,

Joe W4WT


"You do not have to select it anywhere in the Control-RRC, COM FFSK is always active, but you must select what output you want to use for FSK/RTTY in the Radio-RRC."

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General discussion forum / Re: FSK

« on: 2012-03-13, 21:47:06 »

Sorry, let me be more clear...

I'm looking at my Control RRC-1258 IO Settings.  When I click on the drop down to the right of "USB DTR as CW", my options are ONLY Com 0, Com 1, or Com 2.  I DO NOT have Com FSK as an option.  If I look in my Windows 7 Device Manager under Ports (Com & LPT), I see Com , Com 1, Com 2, AND Com FSK listed.  So, my problem is I can't select Com FSK in IO Ports because I don't have the option there.

Joe W4WT

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General discussion forum / Re: FSK

« on: 2012-03-10, 20:23:34 »

I was looking at hooking up FSK but I seem to have a problem doing this with the control unit ...

- in I/O settings  - set USB DTR as CW - select "COM FSK"

I don't have COM FSK as an option; just Com 0, Com 1, or Com 2.  I have ComFSK listed in Windows Device Manager but don't have the option in "IO Settings - USB DTR as CW".  Any ideas of what I have done incorrectly?

Joe W4WT

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General discussion / Re: HamRadioDeluxe performances

« on: 2012-02-15, 17:37:02 »

That sounds great Roland.  Glad you confirmed what I saw.  I would be happy to be a beta tester for the new version.  I use HRD and also have TRX Manager as well as DXLabs Commander, which also failed with the old code.

Joe W4WT

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General discussion / Re: HamRadioDeluxe performances

« on: 2012-02-15, 07:31:05 »

Roland, did you have any luck with your testing yet?

Joe W4WT

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General discussion forum / Re: 1216H looses connectivity with 2.0

« on: 2012-02-06, 18:46:56 »

No, nothing has changed in the network.  All four uploads were done with the same router and same number of devices attached; no new devices were added or removed.  I changed the internet service recently from cable to dsl as the cable provider could not eliminate a WAN problem that was causing dropped packets.  This, of course, was causing audio dropouts.  I can't see how that would affect anything on the local network and certainly would not be able to single out this switch over the other one.

From what you wrote, I assume you upload the new file to the switches RAM, do the checksum there, then if it passes flash it from RAM.  That certainly should prevent a bad load, I would think.  I guess it will remain a mystery at this point.

I just checked the switch after it was powered off all night and morning and it powered up with no problem and all looks to be working correctly so whatever the problem was, it is definitely gone now.  I'm a happy camper because the new 2.0 changes are great!  Much nicer way to set the switch up.

Joe W4WT

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General discussion forum / Re: 1216H looses connectivity with 2.0

« on: 2012-02-05, 17:58:13 »

Well, I may have falsely alerted you.  I reloaded the switch today to get more info for you and this time it seems to be working correctly!  I'm a little surprised at this as this is the fourth time I've loaded 2.0 on this switch and in all previous loads it failed in exactly the same way.  I'm using the same 2.0 file I downloaded previously so it is not a new download.  I see no sluggishness and the "antenna selection" menu looks correct after disabling three relays in the "Relays used by antenna selection" dialog.  This is where I had a big problem before.  As I mentioned, when I disabled some relays previously, the "antenna selection" dialog showed only three rows of "boxes" rather than the usual 25 and the bottom part of the window was missing completely.

I have to assume now that I somehow had a bad upload to the switch on my first three attempts.  Seems odd, as I did the uploads on different days.  I do all firmware uploads remotely and don't believe I've ever had a firmware update act like this on any of the boxes.

I guess you can forget it for now, Jan.  I'll leave 2.0 on it and see if it continues to work okay.  If not, I'll be back and post what I see.  Hopefully, it will behave itself!

Thanks and sorry for the erroneous alert,

Joe W4WT