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PTT intermitently not dropping for amp
I am suddenly having an issue when using USB with an amp and my 6500. I have two amps, the Expert 1.3k-FA and the Acom 2000A and this occurs on both amps so I believe it is being caused by my Flex 6500. Here's what is happening. After making a USB transmission using my footwitch, OCCASIONALLY the amp stays in the transmit mode. I can see this by the transmit lamp staying on on either amp and I need to press the footswitch once or several times to have the TX lamp go off and RX return to normal. When the failure happens, the SmartSDR screen returns to the normal receive mode, but there are no signals on the panadapter, only a noise floor and the red transmit lamp on the 6500 is no longer on. I have checked connections and done a factory reset. I thought the reset had fixed the problem but it returned very shortly, after about 10 QSOs in the WPX contest. This has not been observed on either CW or RTTY or FT8 and I'm at a loss as to what to do now.
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Len, KD0RC
Len
These are my exact issues, too. See my comments below.
John W9ILY
Terry
Len
Tnx.
John W9ILY
John W9ILY
Len