To put Gary’s response another way: Imagine you’re taking to someone standing on front of you and, mid-conversation, the person to whom you’re speaking suddenly disappears without a trace. I think you’d throw an error code, too. :)
Jim S. N2ADV > On May 3, 2021, at 12:32 AM, Gary McDuffie <wb0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On May 2, 2021, at 8:28 PM, Bill Frantz <ae...@arrl.net> wrote: >> >> I had been operating FT8 on 15M and 40M. I powered down my K3 (upgraded with >> the internal sound card) and got the "Rig Control Error" message. > > This is normal for every computer I’ve had. That’s the error message when > the port goes away (by powering down the K3). Sounds normal. It can’t > communicate with the rig when it is shut down so it gives you an error. I > always shut down the program before unplugging the USB cable to the radio. > It runs across my desk for easy access in case of T-Storm. The program still > closes when I tell it to ignore, but works fine when I plug the USB cable > back in and reload the program. You should be fine as soon as you turn the > radio back on and restart the program. Just don’t shut the rig down without > unloading WSJT-X. > > Gary - - AG0N > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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