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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">An hour ago, I wouldn't have suggested the title, but the further I get away from it the more I just set back and laugh.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Here's what happened.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">At about noon today I was talking to a friend on my repeater, it was linked to Allstar. I decided to switch to my simplex base. When I did I had this annoying giddie-up tick tick tick sounds. It sounded like packet lost, but was very</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">rhythmic</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">. I couldn't figure out where it was coming from.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I checked the obvious, swapped cables, swapped URI's, tore down all the links, isolated just that one and used the iaxrpt client to see if I could start to take things out of the equation. I replaced the switch that everything was connected too. Still there.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Next I rolled back recent svn changes thinking it must have been in one of those. Now the strange thing was that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">it</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> was isolated to only one URI, and only the TX side of it.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I confirmed that with Echolink, IRLP echo reflector, ever way I could think of. Now at this point, it was going on 2 hours of debug time. Next I started</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">pulling</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> out features I had enabled.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> All along trying to remember when I knew the last time was that it sounded good and what had changed. I even went to the effort rebuilding the ALSA drivers. Still the problem. I was at a loss. I was about to send a note asking if anyone else had ever seen this when I thought</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">…. Hmm I wonder if it's the Transmitter.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I pressed its PTT and the sound was there, so I pulled all the cables attached to it and did it again… Yep, still there. Powered it off and back on and everything was perfect again. Hooked everything back up, rolled all my changes back in, rebooted and poof it came right up, not issues whatsoever.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Damn, just goes to show you… it's always the *simple* things…. But in this case it was the last thing I checked :(</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">…</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">So, 4hrs of debug, and it was as simple as resetting the TX. At some point, it had got into a strange state… You can bet I won't make the mistake again!</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Alan</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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