Hi Bill,
One of the most important steps is always to change the web port and forward that in your router,
so that you can make changes and never have to go to the station. The couple of minutes to do that
will save you a lot of driving time!
It sounds to me that he has something configured that is "holding" the radio RRC to prevent you from
accessing it after he uses it. I suspect that he has under the menu "radio settings" the setting "auto
connect" set to yes. This must be set to no.
If that is not it, then I am not sure why that is happening. If he cuts power to his RRC, does that solve
your problem?
The ping reset will only take place if the RRC no longer sees a specified server, so that will not solve your problem.
73,
Mitch DJ0QN / K7DX