PGXL Giving High SWR Warning after New Radio Firmware?????

Hi Mark,

I just updated to the new radio firmware and am not seeing this. I'm running the latest PGXL, TGXL and AG stuff as well.

Of course the first thing to do is verify there isn't actually something causing high SWR like a bad or disconnected transmission line or some change at the antenna end. I assume you've already checked all of that.

Make sure you're running all the latest f/w too, then save all your configurations and do hard resets of at least the radio and PGXL. When doing the radio be sure to include all the wait times and all the unplugging recommendations. I've seen at least one report that including unplugging Ethernet cables did the trick as well. And I've heard more than one report that doing two hard resets in a row fixed things.

If this just happened after updating the radio my guess is that will fix it. But if not, I'd submit a support ticket. I've had a weird number of "coincidences" where one thing went sideways at the exact time I changed something that turned out to be totally unrelated. Drives me crazy !

GL Russ KR6W

Hi Mark,

Sorry you're having this problem. This kind of stuff is very frustrating. Besides Dave's suggestion above, I don't know what else to recommend. As I mentioned I'm not having any problem with my PGXL and haven't seen any other reports of this (but I definitely could have missed some). At a minimum it doesn't seem to be a pervasive problem with this update. The only thing I can think of is to open a support ticket but I just saw a notice from Flex that they're pretty backed up with those right now so the timing isn't great. Still, they'll ultimately be able to figure out what's going on and get you going.

There are a couple of real powerhouse Elmers on this forum and Dave WO2X who suggested you check your TX Delay is one of them. I hope that works !

GL Russ KR6W