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General discussion forum / Re: SSB stopped working

« on: 2021-11-29, 15:44:23 »

Thanks for a prompt reply Mike! Tried that too but set it only to 10 as I thought it would be a 10 dB increase. But in the old (and the one that is currently in use) the codec gain is 255... So that is something to test for sure.

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General discussion forum / SSB stopped working

« on: 2021-11-29, 14:51:52 »

Hi,

We had a mysterious problem at OH0Z. SSB stopped working without any warnings. Tomi (OH6EI) visited the station now during the cqww and we had time to check the problem as we thought it would have been just a loose connector or a faulty cable. But it was not. Luckily we had an older RRC there (that we replaced for other reasons) and SSB started work with it just fine. So there is something wrong inside the RRC as rebooting did not help and the FW is the latest. Tomi will bring it back for further investigation but I do not know what to do with it next - any ideas?

73 de Kari, OH2XX

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General discussion forum / Re: Need to power reboot Radio-RRC every time

« on: 2020-10-26, 19:33:33 »

Hi,

Well, my logic works the other way :-) if there are two (or three, see below) RRC units having similar issues and everything else in the network works fine (PCs, Webswitches, IPCameras, etc.) the problem must be inside the RRC.

As said there is a third RRC behaving the same way (at OH2U). The web interface is unresponsive but the radio connection works anyway. I just checked it again today and the issue is still there - radio works but the web interface does not. The Webswitch at OH2U has not had any web interface issues during these years.

Here is the link to my original post (in 2015 :-) http://www.remoterig.com/forum/index.php?topic=3818.0

If you read it through you will find out that I was not the only one who had experienced the web interface problem.

It would be nice to find a fix - be it anywhere.  RFI is not the prime suspect for me either at the moment.

73 de Kari, OH2XX

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General discussion forum / Re: Need to power reboot Radio-RRC every time

« on: 2020-10-23, 23:31:03 »

Yes,

Funny it affects only the WEB interface though. Everything else seems to work now. Been running FT8 on 160m for an hour now without any issues. The RRC's web interface is still unresponsive. That is not very critical as we can reboot the power remotely if needed. But to make things close to perfection it would be nice to resolve the web interface issues as well.

73 de Kari, OH2XX

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General discussion forum / Re: Need to power reboot Radio-RRC every time

« on: 2020-10-23, 17:38:20 »

Hi,

Just a quick update on this. I changed the web port last weekend to over 500 (and changed the NAT setting respectively) and also disabled the ping watchdog. The RRC has been up and running since then and today I turned the radio on for the first time after the changes and made a few QSOs on 15m. It took just one or two QSOs after which the RRC's web interface stopped responding. Trying to reload it gave an error message saying "192.168.100.228 took too long to respond" (from the remote PC at OH0Z and my home PC). Anyway the radio worked ok for the 10 minutes I was running. But if we need to reboot the RRC the remote power switch is now the only option to do that.

73 de Kari, OH2XX

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General discussion forum / Re: Need to power reboot Radio-RRC every time

« on: 2020-10-17, 11:39:44 »

Mitch,

Yes, 81 for RRC and 500 for webswitch.

- Kari

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General discussion forum / Re: Need to power reboot Radio-RRC every time

« on: 2020-10-17, 11:38:26 »

Hi,

Just for the record.

I was running today for 1,5 hours from OH0Z on 15m. I kept the remote PC at OH0Z pinging the 4G router the whole time. I had one connection failure that time after working about an hour and noticed from the web interface that RRC had rebooted itself for some reason, while the PC ping statistics were as follows:

Ping statistics for 192.168.100.1:
    Packets: Sent = 7717, Received = 7717, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 15ms, Average = 2ms

I had the RRC ping watchdog set to reboot - so perhaps that triggered it. I have now disabled it.

I am sure this (RRC/Network) issue will be figured out one day it is going to be something very simple, but for now it is just a mystery to me ;-)

And do not get me wrong  - I really like the product and want all the best for it.

73 de Kari, OH2XX

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General discussion forum / Re: Need to power reboot Radio-RRC every time

« on: 2020-10-17, 09:53:24 »

Hi,

Thank you for your comments. And yes, I  can admit I have trouble believing it is a network issue ;-)  But perhaps we'll change the 4G router and put a switch there next time to see if it helps. It is still quite perplexing that the Webswitch stays alive and the RRC does not. I am also using another Radio-RRC in a different location here in Finland with the same 4G router model and the setup has been running flawlessly for many years.

73 de Kari, OH2XX

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General discussion forum / Re: Need to power reboot Radio-RRC every time

« on: 2020-10-10, 17:40:04 »

Hi,

A new RRC is now in place. After 24 hours we encountered the same problem.

Tomi is on site testing. Ethernet LED blinks on both RRC and 4G router end. No Ethernet HUB in between. Changed the Ethernet cable too but it did not help. (the Ethernet cables are good quality CAT6 double shielded and only 3 meters long) Ping failed too as expected.

So we powered RRC off/on again and it helped.

I think this is an RFI problem - or any other ideas?

We will ground the RRC case and wire 12 VDC via WebSwitch to make rebooting easier in the future if needed.

73 de Kari, OH2XX

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General discussion forum / Re: Need to power reboot Radio-RRC every time

« on: 2020-10-06, 11:45:00 »

Tomi OH6EI decided to go on the island on Thrusday to run the SAC. We hope to have enough time to order a spare RRC unit with express delivery from Sweden to Tomi before his departure...

73 de Kari, OH2XX

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General discussion forum / Re: Need to power reboot Radio-RRC every time

« on: 2020-10-06, 11:05:36 »

Rebooted all and connected to RRC via WEB interface (it works for a while after reboot...)

Tried to upgrade the FW from current 2.90 to 2.95 to see if makes any difference.

Unfortunately the upgrade fails time after time. "Uploading at 33% ..." is the last message and after that there is a blank web frame with the following error message "The webpage at http://192.168.100.228:87/flash might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address."

Rebooted and tried again with the same result. Could this be related to these other symptoms we have encountered?

Tried yesterday also to ping the RRC (from the router) after radio failed to connect. It did not respond:

PING 192.168.100.228 (192.168.100.228): 32 data bytes

--- 192.168.100.228 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

Rebooting RRC helps and after that PING naturally works ok.

So it seems that it is not a configuration/cable/HW issue.

Cannot see the Ethernet LEDs via IP camera.

Just trying to analyze the case as much as possible to have a clear plan when we visit the station next time. Perhaps we need to get a spare RRC just in case.

Here is the Radio RRC Info page:

Name   Value
Company   Microbit
Product   1258
PID   4
Version   7
HW   8
Software   2.90
Bootloader   1.10
Compiler   4.6.2
Build   Feb 17 2016 10:16:14
ROM/RAM   481192/44080
ETH-RAM   2944 (max 3kB)
USB-RAM   15352 (max 16kB)
Battery-RAM   4
ResetSrc   0 [3]
Last WD Reset   10
Uptime   0 Days, 0 Hours, 12 Mins, 32 Secs
    


73 de Kari, OH2XX

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General discussion forum / Re: Need to power reboot Radio-RRC every time

« on: 2020-10-04, 09:37:45 »

Hi,

Checked today if Telnet debug gives any hints what is going on. Here are the results:

At remote site:

debug2 = 1

debug
=========================
+-:debuglevel
q: exit
0: com0-debug on/off
1: com1-debug on/off
2: com2-debug on/off
3: com3-debug on/off
4: com0-ascii on/off
5: com1-ascii on/off
6: com2-ascii on/off
7: com3-ascii on/off
8: debug2 on/off
i: icom-mic debug on/off
m: mode-10 debug on/off
t: comx time-stamp on/off
w: winkeyer on/off
CP-> Radio ON(Error)
SIP Timeout, state = ERROR
CP-> Radio ON(Error)
SIP Timeout, state = ERROR
CP-> Radio ON(Error)
SIP Timeout, state = ERROR


At radio site:

Not able to event connect via telnet to the RRC
"Connecting To 192.168.100.228...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed"

73 de Kari, OH2XX

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General discussion forum / Re: Need to power reboot Radio-RRC every time

« on: 2020-10-03, 22:39:14 »

Ok,

Could be that or something else. Any ideas what to try next? Why does WebSwitch 1216H at OH0Z respond but RRC does not? Why does rebooting RRC help?

73 de Kari

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General discussion forum / Re: Need to power reboot Radio-RRC every time

« on: 2020-10-03, 13:26:22 »

Yes you have ;-)

http://www.remoterig.com/forum/index.php?topic=3818.0

And yes, the port number is changed from 80.

Trying to locate the problem but so far the SIP -error, unresponsive WEB-interface and no replies to PING requests point heavily to RRC. But we'll see.

73 de Kari

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General discussion forum / Re: Need to power reboot Radio-RRC every time

« on: 2020-10-03, 12:50:45 »

Hi Mitch,

Thank you for your reply and suggestions.

Yes, the problem is from multiple user locations. No known changes by the ISP/Mobile operator. Remote desktop, IP Cameras etc. work flawlessly as before.  Public IP updates via DDNS ok.

The RRC WEB interface is not responsive - has never been. We can access it only right after the reboot (not tested that for a while though) but then lose it quite soon after. The web interface is not accessible even via the remote PC in the same LAN segment. Pinging the RRC fails too so could it be the aggressive robots/DoS type of behaviour causing the issue? We have not the latest FW installed that seems to have some WEB interface improvements.

73 de Kari, OH2XX