6600 forever blinking green light

Mark_WS7M

My 6600 was offline during a ham fest and I attempted to remote boot it unsuccessfully.  When I got home I found that on power cycle the green light just continues to blink on boot up.  It never finishes.

Is this SD card corruption?

Bill -VA3WTB

I don't think it is, something got messed up upon your boot up, I recommend resetting to factory reset, that should correct what is scrambled.

Neal_K3NC

Try unplugging the power cord from the radio, count to 10, then boot up and see if it changes. If not, power it down, then to a factory reset (hold the power button in until its light turns white then let go) and see if it changes anything.

If not, create a helpdesk ticket!

Bob- W5TX

Mark, I believe Neal’s answer is best bet. 

Bob w5tx

Santiago Mejia HI8O

Mark...did you fixed it?

Mark_WS7M

Thanks Bill, Neal, Bob ad Santiago,

I still don't know what the real issue was but I have it online again.

So the story was at a hamfest I was talking about how great the flex is and how I can operate it from anywhere.  So I pulled out my phone and tried to connect but no radios were shown.

I figured that it could be two things:

1) I put in a new upgraded IQRouter over Christmas and really had not tried remote since then.  I figured maybe it was a network setup issue.

2) The radio needed a reboot.

I have a small web based Pi app I run that can reboot my radios (toggles the REM on port) and I can also completely disconnect power from the radio as well.

I did both of those things and the radio never appeared.  So I figured it was a #1 issue.

I got home and even on my LAN I could not see the radio.  So I logged into my monitoring camera and rebooted the radio.  That is when I saw it stay in flashing green mode.

Unfortunately I was tired and didn't want to deal with it.  So I simply depowered the radio using REM ON port and decided to wait until morning.

This morning I went out to the shed where the radio was and I physically pressed buttons.  The radio again would not ever come out of blinking green mode.   So I pressed and held the power button until it went white.  It stayed white for a very long time then blinked some various reds then shutdown.

I figured "oh boy... problems".   So I unplugged everything and brought the radio inside.  I put power to it, plugged in a network cable and turned it on.   It booted just fine and I was able to see it in SSDR.

So I moved it back to the shed, plugged everything in and now it is up and running just fine.  Not exactly sure what happened but I will have to keep an eye on it.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

Mark