AG with two radios

jay KB8O

Good afternoon everyone. I have things set up here on a daily basis to use one 6600/pgxl/tgxl/ag. Everything works as it should with both port A and B. When it comes time to contest we run multi 2 and use two of everything. In the past with version 3.1.5 I was able to put one 6600 on port A of the AG and the other 6600 on port B of the AG with no issues at all. I do this so that both operators can share the tribander off the triplexer and to be able to picks different bands. I've double checked all my setting and ever since I upgraded to 4.1.8 I can't get the second radio port B to stay connected. The whole AG window turns white with a communication error alert followed by it returning back to normal operation. This seems to happen about every 2 minutes or so. The 6600 that is on port A seems to stay connected just fine. I was wondering if anyone else has a configuration the same as mine and if the same thing is being seen?

Jay

David Decoons, wo2x

I have not seen this behavior. What happens if you configure radio 2 to be the AG radio A? Don’t switch RF cables but see if the app drops out with only port A of AG app configured for ant1 of radio 2.

If that is stable in app, then change app so that port B is configured for radio2 and port A has no radio. See if it is stable. If so, your RF cabling should be in place from Ant1 of radio 2 to amp2 to tuner 2 to AG port B. Now try transmitting at power level you use in contesting to see if the app on PC2 drops out. If it does when transmitting, then RF into the PC or network cable to PC2.

This should be fairly easy to isolate by switching things between position 1 and 2. I have run my 6700 on port A of PG, TG and AG and other different radios on port B for testing without an issue using the VA6AM bandpass filters (triplexer for 10,15,20 and diplexer for 40/80).

73 Dave wo2x