Antenna Genius

To my experience the AG 8 x 2 works fine with v.3.0 but I have found some issues when running remote. But you may have an other AG like 6x2 or ?  

I use the AG windows app at my home PC that I direct to my remote AG IP-adress where the radio also is. No PC at remote radio site. It works well. Perhaps you have tried this.

I have no PC at radio where the AG is. From home I use PC with the application to choose antennas. And I can switch between several antennas for one band with BCD decoding with AG. Perhaps this schematics clarifys my set-up.

I also have a 6700 but after upgrading to AG v3.08 I have problems. Using the software app my AG 2 x 8 works fine in SO2R mode, I can switch A and B antennas that have been setup for each band. However with the 6700 anytime ANT2 get selected as in a 2nd panadapter or using DIV mode with ANT2 as 2nd antenna, all the B antenna on the display of app go red. The A side stays green and I can select A antennas no problem.
A support ticket was created and I made 4o3a aware on their forums. I've tried everything from reinstalling SmartSDR, reverting back to the AG to v3.0.0b. I've also did the DIP switch 8 flip so to reset AG. Still same result.
I do remember this, after loading and running the windows application, I did start SmartSDR and tested AG, then I remembered to update the AG firmware, maybe something got corrupt but you would think reverting to previous software would overwrite everything, unless there is an internal registry that got messed. Any suggestions?

Hi Mike, you say "Using the software app my AG 2 x 8 works fine in SO2R mode, I can switch A and B antennas that have been setup for each band." What differs this from the problem you encounter other than in DIV mode? I could not follow your thinking here.

I had the AG unpowered overnight and found a recent post in the 4o3a forums regarding a possible corrupt config file with another issue, so I deleted that file and it created a new one below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Configuration xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">;
  <FileName>C:UsersMikeAppDataRoaming4O3A SignatureAntenna GeniusConfiguration.xml</FileName>
  <Devices>
    <Device IsLocal="true" LocalIdent="1-1" Name="AntennaGenius" Address="192.168.219.140" Port="9007" Mode="Both - SO2R" Topmost="false" Location_X="-1904" Location_Y="-9" OML_X="0" OML_Y="0" OMR_X="0" OMR_Y="0">
      <FlexRadioA Active="true" SerialNumber="3714-4168-6700-xxxx" Antenna="ANT1" />
      <FlexRadioB Active="true" SerialNumber="3714-4168-6700-xxxx" Antenna="ANT2" />
    </Device>
  </Devices>
</Configuration>

FYE: I put "xxxx" to hide my serial #.
Then powered back up and it seemed to work kinda normal on all bands except 80m where any attempt to use ANT2 as in DIV or a 2nd panadapter, would turn all B port antennas red. On a couple bands it would cycle through a bunch of clicks on the AG before it would settle. I thought, hmmm some progress.

So overnight I again unplugged the AG and this morning plugged it back it in. Connected to AG, and now complete different behavior. Again any access to ANT2 via DIV or 2nd panadapter would turn all B ports antennas red. Some bands even had A port antenna all red for 10 seconds then go to normal. Quite bizarre.

Duplicated this behavior on my laptop where I installed a fresh v3.19 and new AG install. At first I could not access AG so I had to reinstall firmware, then behavior was duplicated. Then going back to the desktop I could not access the AG so I also had to reinstall the AG firmware, then got access but this bizarre behavior.

Again, this is only in SO2R mode. In Port A or Port B all seems to work fine, in fact to test the all the antenna ports I added 40m to all ports in the configuration. Connected first as port A and switched to 40m, all 8 antenna ports (green LEDs) showed up and was able to select all antenna ports as it should, repeated this for port B and again all antenna ports (red LEDs) were switched in as it should.

Can someone fill me in on the availability of the Antenna Genius 8x2?  It looks like its available on the Flex website although its photo doesn't look like the latest V2 version on on the 4o3A website.  Is the AG V2 currently available direct from 4o3A or through FRS?