Strange new 8600 NR behavior

n8wrl

Hi all!

I've been playing with my new 8600 and I notice some differences from the 6600 I used to have. I thought I'd post a problem I'm having here to see if it's worth submitting a ticket.

I'm running SmartSDR 3.8.20 on a Windows 11 machine. I'm on 75m phone right now in LSB mode with ANF engaged.

The first thing I notice is, if I change modes and then change back, most of my DSP settings are forgotten. That is, if i have NB, NR, and/or ANF engaged in LSB mode, when I switch to USB and then back to LSB, those NB, NR, and ANF are OFF and levels set to 0.

The next thing is the problem.

During a QSO I engaged NR and took my turn. After unkeying, there was no audio. I couldn't figure out what was wrong - nothing was muted, there was just no audio. Silence. I could see the others talking on the panadapter but I couldn't hear anything. With some random clicking I happened to hit NR to turn it off, and the audio came back! Turn NR on, audio mutes, Turn it off, audio comes back. I finished the roundtable with NR off so I could hear everyone.

After we all signed, I played some more, hoping to reproduce the problem. As you'd expect, I couldn't. I switched modes again and came back to LSB. NR works as expected now. It's been more than an hour and it's working.

Am I nuts? Can anyone else make this happen?

73

-Brian n8wrl

KD0RC

Hi Brian, I think that I would do a profile export, then do a factory reset followed by a profile import. It sounds like you tripped over some odd situation that caused the issue. The factory reset should help to clear up everything and make the issue less likely to happen again.

If it recurs, submit a help desk ticket.

n8wrl

Thank you Len! Although the radio has been on the air for less than 2 hours and presumabely came "factory reset" I'm planning a big shack reorg so I'll do that.

Thanks again, 73, and Merry Christmas!