No RF output in CW

Barry N1EU

All of a sudden I can't get any rf output in cw.  I hear the rx muting/unmuting with my keying, but no sidetone and no output indicated on my wattmeter or on the panadapter.   Breakin is enabled and RF Power is set at max.  Also no cw output in MOX.  

Transmitter is working fine in ssb and in Tune.  Any troubleshooting suggestions?

Thanks & 73,
Barry N1EU

RoyS

Barry,

Save your profiles and try a factory reset.

73 - Roy - W5TKZ

Barry N1EU

Sorry, I meant to mention that I have already tried two cycles of factory resets with no luck.

Bill-W9OL

I had a similar problem. In my case what happened is that the selected DAX choice was reverting to a previously use choice when I shut down.

Probably one of my self induced error.

Barry N1EU

My DAX is on "none".  I'm hoping there's a setting somewhere I'm missing but I can't imagine what it could be.

Lewis Cheek

I have had this happen myself. One I close the slice and reopen all was okay.

Lew
N4CO

Walt - KZ1F

Barry, you didn't break their radio did you? I would suspect doing a full factory reset would constitute closing and reopening a slice.

In all seriousness Barry, do you have wireshark handy? Try monitoring the tcp traffic around you switching modulation to CW and see if you get any errors back.

Barry N1EU

I went back to it just now and now there's RF output.  I didn't change anything.  This is a relief but also a bit worrisome.

Thanks for all the helpful suggestions.  And I'm glad I didn't need to resort to a wireshark trace Walt  ;-)

Lewis Cheek

This software radio may well prove to be too much for me.
Lew
N4CO

Walt - KZ1F

Intermittent errors are the toughest to find and fix...

W7NGA

Barry, were you too close to a band-edge? Perhaps Flex felt your CW wasn't up to par and felt best to throttle your RF until a better day unfolds? <grin>

Barry N1EU

No, I wasn't Dan but I'll keep an eye on that.  It's a good theory.

Jim Gilliam

If a piece of software works perfectly there is a 100% chance there is something seriously wrong with it.

Walt - KZ1F

That's only if it comes from Microsoft Jim. ;-)

EA4GLI

Were you on the right TX antenna? Today I had something similar happen and my slice was on the XVTR antenna for TX.

Barry N1EU

I just lost cw output again, immediately after clicking on one of my cw memory channels.  But it's not repeatable.

I'm just posting this to document in case anybody else runs across similar behavior in the future or if this reminds somebody of something they saw in the past.