There was never a firmware rev 0 - the build numbers are supposed to be
the modified Julian date of release. '0' would have been 4713 BC.
If you've already tried the erase/reload and disable turbo options, and
if it was working before, then chances are pretty good the bootloader is
corrupted or it may have suffered some hardware damage. Send it back in
with a note about the problem and I'll check it out.
Scott
deep_south_bob wrote:
>
>
> Scott
> I bought the Tracker 2 from you a while back and it has been working
> without any issues until recently. June 1 brought some pretty good
> lightning down here.....even on surge protectors and UPS it wiped a
> mother board on one machine, damaged a network card on another, and the
> small Dell that was running the aprs seems to have lost the serial port
> connectivity. The tracker has been set up to do weather, digi, and an
> Igate. The UIview was running on the internet side fine. The digi seemed
> to be functioning on the tracker side as you would hear it key up the
> transmitter. Just nothing going through the modem-no receive and no transmit
>
> So last night I hooked up a new machine running XP service pack 3 and
> did the UIview install and used your program for the tracker. I managed
> to get into the tracker without much issue (as opposed to the other Dell
> which would not connect throught the serial port). I noticed that the
> firmware was sitting at version 0 and since I had screen shots of the
> original communication and the config files for comparision from the
> other machine (version was something like 50xxx) I figured the tracker
> would need a firmware upgrade.
>
> I attempted to use the web side for the task of gettting the new
> firmware but it kept giving me errors. So I download the file from the
> website and decided to use the file upload feature.. It would start and
> then crash giving me a windows error message. I figure okay maybe this
> XP machine was too high tech for it so I swtiched everything over to a
> machine running NT4. Again when trying to do a firmware check on the web
> it couldn't find the location. The upload file feature failed as well.
>
> So then I went back to the XP machine and using my screen shots
> configured the tracker as close as I could get......some areas like KISS
> settings weren't available on the version 0. I then went through UIVieew
> and set up the identical settings as before for the program.
> The tracker has been set up to do weather, digi, and an Igate just as
> before.
>
> As soon as I got uiview to connect to the server my weather was going
> out over the internet.....but there seemed to be no transmission over
> air. The 2 meter rig was receiving data from other stations and the data
> was going to the internet and appears to be hearing just fine based on
> the aprs.fi info I did see the red lights come on and off on occasion -
> I figured the digi side. But I do not seem to be getting the tracker to
> tranmist data from UIview out to the transceiver (which is a dedicated
> Yausu 2 meter rig). The cables I checked and they haven't been moved
> since originally setup.
>
> So are my problems with the tracker related to the lack of firmware
> upgrade or would the transmit function be damaged somehow?
>
> I need a solution asap as a lot of hams around here rely on my system
> (ironic eh?)....Like I said I had no problems prior to this. the machine
> that appears to have the serial port issue was a 500mhz Dell so I
> suspect it was about time. Everything else that I had running during the
> storms are fine.
>
> Help please.
>
> Robert Pullman
> KE5JJC Petal, MS
>
>
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