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Dead Flex 6600

Howard Koenig
Howard Koenig Member
edited June 2020 in FLEX-6000 Signature Series
Please HELP!!!!

Radio is non-responsive. Won't power up. Power supply is working. Cable is
plugged in.

For some reason my antenna memory wasn't saved and I transmitted
into the wrong antenna.

Seems like an internal fuse... maybe?

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  • WX7Y
    WX7Y Member ✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2020
  • Bill -VA3WTB
    Bill -VA3WTB Member ✭✭✭
    edited May 2020
    If there is no sign of life, start a help ticket and they would be glad to help.
  • Howard Koenig
    Howard Koenig Member
    edited May 2020
    Hmmmm... Just came back on... all by itself!  well that was weird.
  • Bill -VA3WTB
    Bill -VA3WTB Member ✭✭✭
    edited May 2020
    Ok, so it is back up, good. now keep an eye on it Howard. It is possible your SD card has some corruption issues. Corruption will show two types of problems. It can make your radio do strange things, start up problems, lose of persistance, The other problem is that it may even stop your radio from starting completely. 
  • WX7Y
    WX7Y Member ✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2020
  • Bill -VA3WTB
    Bill -VA3WTB Member ✭✭✭
    edited May 2020
    Bret, this is were it gets tricky. Only if your SD card is perfect is the upgrade any good. What has been happening is some people have upgraded but the card had some lingering bad data on it from the last version, now, even with the upgrade they still have problems. In this case the card needs a full format, or a new card to fix it.
  • Howard Koenig
    Howard Koenig Member
    edited May 2020
  • Bill -VA3WTB
    Bill -VA3WTB Member ✭✭✭
    edited May 2020
    Also, this is making things harder to help people complaining that their radio is doing strange things. Is it an SD card with bad data, or do they need a factory reset? the problems that are showing up are very similar to each other. It has been found out that a n bad SD card can make the radio do strange things, messed up persistence, strange start ups, profiles missing or changed without the op doing anything. The lines have blurred. Now that the SD card problem is behind us, trouble shooting will be a little easier.
  • Bill -VA3WTB
    Bill -VA3WTB Member ✭✭✭
    edited May 2020
    3.1.12 fixes the problem of a card becoming corrupt. but not if the card already has problems from before. I don't know anything about what Flex is working on right now.
  • Joe - KC2TN
    Joe - KC2TN Member ✭✭
    edited May 2020
    After upgrading to 3.1.12, you should also do a factory reset anD restore your backed up profiles. This rebuilds a potentially corrupted database on the SD card.
  • N9VC
    N9VC Member ✭✭
    edited May 2020
  • Bill -VA3WTB
    Bill -VA3WTB Member ✭✭✭
    edited May 2020

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