Antenna Genius Loses Connection to Flexradio

Harry W0LS

I am installing an Antenna Genius. I have upgraded the firmware to 4.1.8. It appears that the AG will not stay connected to the radio. I have defined the antenna connections and configured the port A connection to my flex and that seemed ok. Port b is not configured to a specific radio. When I start the AG it comes up in auto mode on both port a and b and seems to work. Port a side will show me current radio band and port b side says none as it should. But soon after I get it up and running I will see a small window pop up in lower right hand corner of display. It says "SMARTSDR Client connected to IP xxxxxx (where **** is AG's ip." And then the port a side will change from showing the correct Flex band to "none". I have tried different network cables, cabling it to different spots on network but nothing seems to fix this issue. Had anyone seen these kind of intermittent connections with the AG?

73…Harry…W0LS

Mike-VA3MW

Support ticket created

KH6XX

I had similar issues and instead of connecting the Flex equipment, the computer and the AGs to the router, I connected them to an inexpensive dedicated switch and that switch connected to the router. I had disconnects on PGXL, TGXL and AGs until I installed the dedicated switch.

Randy KH6XX

Mike-VA3MW

We have found that not all Gigabit switches are created equal. The good ones work well. The not so good ones seem to drop a lot of data.

I often suggest to try 100mb switch and see if the problem goes away.

KH6XX

I installed the TP-Link TL-SG108S 8 Port Switch. I got it on Amazon for around $25 and simply moved the Cat6a cables from router to the switch. Ken from Flex Technical Support suggested this switch and it worked for me.