Just as before, started Rig up and find I have no DAX transmit.
DAX receive working normally.
Sort of a annoyance, to put it mildly.
Sure hope the guys in TX come up with a cure fast....
I 'think' I reinstalled v1.3 to fix it last time....
DAX receive working normally.
Sort of a annoyance, to put it mildly.
Sure hope the guys in TX come up with a cure fast....
I 'think' I reinstalled v1.3 to fix it last time....
Posted 5 years ago
KY6LA - Howard, Elmer
Your preaching to the Choir
I have done all of your steps
Repeatedly
Repeatedly
But having DAX stop twice is not what I'd call having this problem continually. Frequently maybe.
It's two occasions, of some obvious fault.
As I'm not the only person suffering a loss of DAX.
I'm just making a guess, but possibly it's due to my diverse operating.
I do, cw, rtty, psk, JT65 and JT9, an occasional SSB qso. And I'm constantly switching back and forth between the modes.
Which on CW (which I've never lost) is the only non-DAX program.
The fact that it's TRANSMIT portion of DAX could be significant as basically the receive modes are similar.
That may not be relevant. I'm just guessing.
In the 10 to 14 days that transmit DAX was working, I made 139 qsos
Only 1 SSB
90+ rtty
20+ JT65
10+ JT9
6 PSK
the rest were machine sent via CWX
Finger are a tad crooked due to arthritis and my fist reflects this.
Unfortunately...most of my operating requires two way communication. Hearing the stations is only half of the requirements for the Quixote Quest.
I have done all of your steps
Repeatedly
Repeatedly
But having DAX stop twice is not what I'd call having this problem continually. Frequently maybe.
It's two occasions, of some obvious fault.
As I'm not the only person suffering a loss of DAX.
I'm just making a guess, but possibly it's due to my diverse operating.
I do, cw, rtty, psk, JT65 and JT9, an occasional SSB qso. And I'm constantly switching back and forth between the modes.
Which on CW (which I've never lost) is the only non-DAX program.
The fact that it's TRANSMIT portion of DAX could be significant as basically the receive modes are similar.
That may not be relevant. I'm just guessing.
In the 10 to 14 days that transmit DAX was working, I made 139 qsos
Only 1 SSB
90+ rtty
20+ JT65
10+ JT9
6 PSK
the rest were machine sent via CWX
Finger are a tad crooked due to arthritis and my fist reflects this.
Unfortunately...most of my operating requires two way communication. Hearing the stations is only half of the requirements for the Quixote Quest.
This weekend, I operated the ARRL red badge event, and hunted DX on all modes. Doing my typical rapid frequency and mode hopping via dx spotter clicks and band button presses. Plus experimenting with outboard audio processing with DAX input. I experienced several anomalies....
1) lost DAX Tx and RX several times throughout the weekend.
2) often after changing bands, VOX on DAX wouldn't work until I "bumped" the MOX on and off. Then it was fine.
3) several times, I changed from CW or DigiL to SSB and the filter stayed on the narrow setting and I had to manually set it to 2.7k before I could hear anything. I didn't have this problem in previous. But I did sometimes in the one before that.
4) I haven't found APF as effective in this version as in the previous one.
1) lost DAX Tx and RX several times throughout the weekend.
2) often after changing bands, VOX on DAX wouldn't work until I "bumped" the MOX on and off. Then it was fine.
3) several times, I changed from CW or DigiL to SSB and the filter stayed on the narrow setting and I had to manually set it to 2.7k before I could hear anything. I didn't have this problem in previous. But I did sometimes in the one before that.
4) I haven't found APF as effective in this version as in the previous one.
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I had some strange problems, intermittent problems some time ago. Found RF in the shack was causing it. Lots of ferrite cores fixed it. There could be an RF in the shack issue causing your issues.
I had some persistent RF in the shack for a while and I tracked it down to RF coming from the antennas via the outside of the coax, even though the antenna in question had a RF chock type balun as part of the antenna from the manufacturer. Added Ferrite on to the coax at the antenna and that solved all unresolved RF issues at the transmitter end.
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Bill-W9OL
Can't guarantee that it will solve your problem. But hopefully it will.