SDR 3.1.11 . Upgrade

While updating I learned something that was causing a problem with a Cold Start. The radio had three Red Flashing light indicating the radio would not reboot. The upgrade had gone fine and was functional before doing a Cold Start. I thought it must have been caused by the update. After trying to restart 3 times and doing another Cold Start the radio still would not boot. UGH. Then I did a Cold Start but unplugged the radio from the power supply. The radio took off and worked perfectly. The supply voltage to the radio must be ZERO to get a clean shut down and Cold Start. When I had shut down the supply the red blinking light had dimmed and went out. I had left PS off for a minute or two but apparently still had enough voltage to corrupt the radio booting. My Power Supply is a 50a Aston supply that is NOT a switching supply. A great supply and does not bleed down as fast as maybe a switcher may. My lesson learned is UNPLUG the radio when restarting a radio Cold Start (radio reboot). I did not do a reset to the Flex default as I didn’t want to loose any of my settings. That said I did loose my connection with my PGXL. The Flex did not show the PA applet, only the 100 watt radio. I had to go to the PGXL Utility and in the Tools Icon and Flex tab I had to just hit the Save button. The setup was fine but the radio did not see it until I Saved it, probably recreating the linkage. Did not have to reboot radio or PGXL Utility. Hope this helps others as it took some trial and error to figure this out. 73 Bill W9JJB

This was an maintenance release that had a few really pressing problems, the most notable is the correction made for SD card problems. Tim said that the SD card change will be coming in a release for V2 as well. And I also Hope there is a general release coming with other things soon.