ANT lights stay red.

Ruarto

I have taken the tuner and amp out and have a line direct to the antenna and it still shows as red on the pc. It isnt getting any signal in or out that I can tell. sound is thru the front of the 8600M.

Is there a switch to flip or button to push or software thingee I need to tweek to make my new puppy bark? Ive been digging in the manual and dont find such.

I bought this in Nov, just this last week got it out of the box. (long story, hospital twice, help getting hamshack setup, life… etc). I sure want to hear it going !

VE7ATJ_Don

Hi Ruarto… I'm assuming that when you say the '…ant light is red..' you are referring to the ANT identifiers on the Slice Flag

Or the entry in the menu on the right side of the screen

If so, these are simply identifying which antenna has been selected for Transmitter (TX) output. In the case above, I use ANT2 for both Receive (blue) input and Transmit (red) ouput. It is possible (and sometimes I do that as well) to select a different antenna for input or output.

Is that what you are referring to???

As far as not getting any power out, how are you determining that? Is there nothing showing on the RF Pwr meter when you transmit? Have you tried trying to transmit into a dummy load?

Under Settings/Radio Setup/TX tab, what is Max Power set to?

Also, what is the RF Power slider set to on the side panels?

As in mine, it should be all the way to the right.