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General discussion forum / Re: Rising 3-tone signal when attempting to connect to remote station

« on: 2023-07-18, 00:31:46 »

I was wrong ... yet again.  Way too many moving parts to this lash up. [:=)  Now, the MAC addr of my 1258 no longer shows up in our router's DHCP lease list.  I'll try the power down for 24 hrs, and start up again.  Sure wish I understood what this gizmo is trying to do.

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General discussion forum / Re: Rising 3-tone signal when attempting to connect to remote station

« on: 2023-07-12, 00:15:14 »

I may be closing in.  In the "IP address" panel, I can trace the LAN IP [192.168.7.203] back in our router to a DHCP lease to the RRC's MAC so RRC and router are talking.  However the gateway address in the RRC is wrong.  As long as DHCP is checked, I can't change it.  Our I/Q router's leases seem to be for a day or less so I've got the RRC powered down.  I'll turn it back on after 24 hours and see if it will get a good IP and Gateway from the router.

This problem has occurred a couple of times before but I've never tracked down what was happening.  It just sort of fixed itself after awhile. <K6DGW>

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General discussion forum / Re: Rising 3-tone signal when attempting to connect to remote station

« on: 2023-07-10, 00:38:15 »

Thanks for the reply Frank. The station's IP address is static, I think it has something to do with the WAN [AT&T] being fiber, but at any rate it does not change.  I have separate RRC profiles for each of the 3 remotes, and they are correct.  We did have a problem with the station's DHCP giving a different local LAN address to one of the remotes once but other users are able to connect now using the SIP and ports that I have.  I haven't touched the 1258's configurations other than to select one profile or another in possibly a year.

The problem with remote operation is too many moving parts and I can only get to half of them without a 70 km drive. [:=)  Maybe someone will show up with some ideas I haven't thought of yet.  Thanks again.

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV

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General discussion forum / Rising 3-tone signal when attempting to connect to remote station

« on: 2023-07-08, 23:58:30 »

RRC1258 in K3-twin configuration.  WiFi at control site is a dongle that works fine providing wifi access to a computer that does not have internal wifi.  Additionally, it has worked with the RRC1258.  Remote station is W7RN and it has worked just fine for several years.  For unknown reasons, I've suddenly lost connectivity and get a signal of 3 rising tones [similar to the old telephone all-trunks-busy].  What is it telling me?

I've verified:

The 1258's IP address is 192.168.7.253 which corresponds to the IP address our router's DHCP has assigned to my 1258's MAC address.  The SIP address and port numbers are correct for the W7RN remotes [there are three, directed to the right one by port forwarding at the station].

The green PWR LED is steady green.

My K3 fails to go into TERM mode.  It just displays the normal banner and then I get the 3-tone signal and the yellow and red LED's on the AUX/MIC RJ-45 on the front panel begin blinking yellow and red.

I'm stumped, any help?

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks, NV USA

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General discussion forum / Disabling/Enabling Radio-RRC

« on: 2016-09-18, 02:07:00 »

RRC-1258 MK2:  I need a way to disable/enable the radio RRC from a PIC controller.  The method we're considering is:

Route the 12VDC power through a PIC-controlled relay, simply powering up the RRC to enable it.  Doing this, there is a short delay while the RRC boots up and establishes the Ethernet connection.  Using this approach, I would need to know when that is completed. 

Q: Is there a signal on one of the connectors [e.g. I/O on the back] that will indicate that the deadstart is complete?

73,

Fred K6DGW
Sparks NV USA

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Hardware, Cabling, Installations / Re: RX audio in one headphone only

« on: 2015-12-01, 04:57:50 »

RRC 1258IIs V7

Name   Value
Company   Microbit
Product   1258
PID   4
Version   7
HW   8
Software   2.87
Bootloader   1.10
Compiler   4.6.2
Build   Aug 26 2015 11:23:58
ROM/RAM   477740/44064
ETH-RAM   2944 (max 3kB)
USB-RAM   15348 (max 16kB)
Battery-RAM   4
ResetSrc   0 [3]
Last WD Reset   9
Uptime   3 Days, 7 Hours, 15 Mins, 51 Secs
    
Serial number   6200
MAC address   00:1e:fd:01:8e:d8
IP address   192.168.1.96
Netmask   255.255.255.0
Gateway   192.168.1.254
DNS   192.168.1.254
Wi-Fi network   module not present

I'm actually running on Wi-Fi [ATT Uverse] but I have an outboard dongle and RR thinks it's Ethernet.  I love being able to fool technology!  This isn't a big deal, while sort of deaf, my right ear is the one I use on the phone.  It's just when all the weight of the audio is on the right ear, it makes me lean to the right and my back gets sore. :-))

Others use the W7RN remote station, so I think I pretty much need to come up
with a personal solution.

Regardless of one ear, this is beginning to work really great!

73,

Fred K6DGW
Sparks NV

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Hardware, Cabling, Installations / RX audio in one headphone only

« on: 2015-11-27, 19:39:52 »

I've got receive audio in one ear only.   I don't yet know the reason and the remote is used by more than one operator so I don't want to change any menu settings.

Is it OK to just bridge the tip and ring in the plug going into the SP jack?

Fred K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn

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Configuration, RRC 1258 / Re: N1MM+ New User Help

« on: 2015-11-14, 22:41:14 »

Thanks for the advice and guidance.  Setting N1MM+, RR COM1, and the RR Virtual COM1 [real COM15 on my computer] did not fix the problem.  I'm coming to the conclusion that I need to learn a lot more about how RR works ... right now I just seem to be "trying stuff" with no real plan and the only outcome I can ever report is, "It works," or, "It didn't work.  I'll see if I can get smarter on some of this first.

73,

Fred K6DGW
Sparks NV

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Configuration, RRC 1258 / N1MM+ New User Help

« on: 2015-11-13, 22:45:07 »

Extreme newbie here.  K3 control to a K3 remote.  I have the RR1258 MK2 working, latest FW, CW only right now.  Paddle to WinkerUSB [which show up as COM3 in device mgr] keys the RR through pin 4 of the I/O connector on the rear of the RR.  Works fine.  COM15 is the RR Virtual COM1 port in device mgr. 

I configured N1MM+ for K3 on COM15, 38400,8,N,1 and Winkey on COM3.  N1MM+ never sees the K3 and keeps telling me the K3 is not responding.  Any ideas appreciated

73,

Fred K6DGW
Sparks NV