Hi Gerald I use the USB to parallel adapter cable and today off and on I have been pulling the cable and connecting my camera stick card reader to upload pictures from my grandson's work of art.....maybe that is related to the problem??
73 Al -----Original Message----- From: Gerald Youngblood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 6:28 PM To: WARD,AL; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'A.R.S. - W5AMI' Cc: 'Flex Radio' Subject: RE: [Flexradio] SDR X2 and dead rx Al, This usually means that the parallel port connector is not seated properly on one end or the other. Gerald Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR FlexRadio Systems Ph: 512-535-5266 Fax: 512-233-5143 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.flex-radio.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WARD,AL > Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 6:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; A.R.S. - W5AMI > Cc: Flex Radio > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] SDR X2 and dead rx > > I really wish you guys had not brought up this subject as my > SDR-1000 as of just a few hours ago has now started to go in > to the xmit mode at will and will not respond to any attempts > to make it go to receive. I have rebooted my computer and it > has no effect. I restart my Forebox, the SDR, and turn off > and restart the software and it gets stuck in the xmit mode > more time than it is in receive. At one point, it seemed that > slight touching or movement of my mouse would bring it back > to receive but then you let go and it is back in xmit. I have > just the 1w version. > > At present, my SDR-1000 is stuck in transmit. > > Any ideas? No hardware changes here since getting it up and > running a week ago. > > It worked great on 2M JT65 last night. > > 73 > Al W5LUA > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Loen > Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 6:07 PM > To: A.R.S. - W5AMI > Cc: Flex Radio > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] SDR X2 and dead rx > > A.R.S. - W5AMI wrote: > > >It seems like I've seen some discussion on this before, but > I could not > >find it in the archives. > > > >Once in a while when I power up my SDR, the X2 will activate the key > >line to my AMP or external TX, etc. I have no idea why it would do > >this. > > > > I have had similar symptoms, but I don't know if my X2 is > involved or not. No amp is involved, at any rate. > > What usually happens in my case is that when I put it in CW > mode, it will go into a "keydown" mode as if I had put a rock > on my CW key (this ends up being a set of dits or dahs, then, > based on the current keyer setting for speed). > > The cure has so far been to reseat the parallel cable a > couple of times. > > Then, once it finally and randomly goes away, to screw down > the connection to the parallel port well in hopes of > preserving the good connections. > > I've had the problem with both USB and parallel -- slightly > less often with the latter, actually. > > I've also had it simply assert transmit upon powering up the > rig, but not as often, certainly not as often of late. > > There does seem to be something touchy somewhere in how the > parallel cable relates to T/R switching, but since I usually > get past it fairly quickly, I've never really tracked it down. > > > > Larry WO0Z > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
