Mode Saving

Opathy

I have a 8600 using the latest software. If I’m on 75 meter AM and switch to 40 meters by using the “Band” button the radio stays on AM even though the last time I was on 40 meters I was on LSB. It doesn’t do this all of the time but it seems to act like this frequently when I change bands. Shouldn’t the software remember the mode last used on each band?

Mike-VA3MW

There are 2 way to change bands.

If you sent a computer / cat command to move to 40m, then something called persistence is not involved. You are destroying the Slice and building a new one and the mode, AM, stays the same.

If you move to 40M by pressing a Band button in SmartSDR, then it should go back to 40M as you left it.

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Opathy

I don’t know what you mean Mike by a computer/cat command to change bands. What I’ve done is while listening on 80 AM I click on the band button on the left side of the software and click on the 40 meters button and it’s is in AM even though I have never used AM on 40 meters. If I switch the mode to LSB on 40M then I can go back and forth between bands and all is well. I wonder what is happening to revert back to the problem issue.

KD0RC

Do you shut down your 8600 by using the power button (or REM ON) jack, or do you just shut off your power supply while the radio is on?

Opathy

Ok, I can explain it better now after playing with the software a bit. If I go to 3.885AM using a memory and then go to 40M using the band button the radio is on AM on 40 M. If i don't use a memory to get to 3885 to begin with the mode will stay on SSB on 40M.

KD0RC

Oh, I see. I do all my band switching using profiles. Kind of a pain to set up, but easy to use afterwards. This will give you a sense of how I set things up per band and mode. My call is at the front because I didn't really understand how profiles work when I set them up. I thought I would have a set of profiles and any guest op would have their own. Didn't really work out that way…

What might be easier than the memories is FLex Repeater Spots. Link to info:

https://community.flexradio.com/discussion/8029504/flex-repeater-spots-utility#latest

Link to GitHub:

https://github.com/KD0RC/FlexRepeaterSpots

Using Flex Repeater Spots, you can have your AM frequencies showing as a spot. Click the spot to go to the freq and mode.

Just click the spot and the radio tunes there just like a DX spot and the mode will automagically change to AM or whatever you want. You can name it anything you want. Note that spaces aren't allowed in a spot name, so I just use underscores.

Opathy

very interesting