USB Cable by Slice A or B or ..... Not Working

Ralph Fedor

I found a post made 7 months ago reporting a problem with the USB Cable feature not working when using Slice A or B as a source.  I find that I am experiencing the same problem today when attempting to drive Denkovi relay boards.  If I use Active Slice as the source things work as expected.  If I use Slice A or Slice B as the source in an attempt to set up an SO2R station with my 6700, it appears that this still does not work. 

Or, hopefully, I'm doing something wrong that I can correct and make things work.  My setup is:  Enable, Active High, Slice A (or , Band, 160-etc.  I've tried two different relay boards and two different USB cables going to the boards.

Flex 6700 (just back from a repair job), Ver. 3.1.8.145

Am I doing something wrong?  I really hope so.  All comments and assistance appreciated.

Ralph - K0IR

w5ap

same problem with my 6600M. I can only use slice A to drive my auto bandpass filter (Top Ten) and SteppIR box. It works fine, but doing SO2R and 2 slices, I have to "unable" the slice A output or when N1MM switches slices doing "Dueling CQ", the filters and SteppIR try to follow whatever is active.  So I have to set the SteppIR box manually on the slice using that antenna.

Ralph Fedor

Eric Gruff

I posted this almost a year ago and was told it's a known bug, but haven't heard anything about it being fixed. Many of us use BPFs for SO2R and need this functionality, so I wish it would be addressed. It seems like a relatively easy fix - the problem seems to be that the USB interface doesn't get the frequency accurately and so thinks each slice is set to 0.0000 MHz.

Pat KØPC

W5AP

Pat KØPC