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> Well, it happened again, this morning.
> Both URI's on same usb buss, but this time it was the UHF repeater URI that failed.  Previously, it was the vhf simplex node that was 'sensitive'.
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> Shutting down and restarting asstorisk doesn't do it, but

Hehe, interesting isn't it..  - how it's beaten into us that this cheapo consumer-junk USB interface is better and more reliable than onboard sound devices.  When have you ever seen an onboard sound device vanish?