Dale
did you sort this in the end?
I have 2 vm-71 setups, one on lan, one remote overseas by internet, The remote has been up and down for years, more often down and we have never been able to finger it.
The lan systems great, never missed a beat in 5 years.
Everything connects, radio powers up, status perfect both ends, the small connect beep, command port data looks ok in debug, just the head fails to come up. Power down only possible by the remote status page.
Be good to work together on this one, not to many users with these radios.
Harry