Group, I have a site that is acting strange. I have a server with a VHF(Mastr II) and UHF(TKR-850) repeater, each with a URI. Both repeaters are linked together locally. I noticed while someone is using the machine, the TX will just stop while they are talking. If I switch to the other repeater, the TX is working fine. The URIs Red LED goes out. This happens to both machines. I have swapped and changed URIs and cables with no change. Any ideas? boB - W5EVH
Is it the tkr850 that stops TX? You may have overlooked the kenwood software timeout timer must be disabled. I did the same thing...... -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 2/7/14, Bob Roszkowski <bob@w5evh.org> wrote: Subject: [App_rpt-users] Loosing TX To: "app_rpt mailing list" <App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org> Date: Friday, February 7, 2014, 4:22 PM Group, I have a site that is acting strange. I have a server with a VHF(Mastr II) and UHF(TKR-850) repeater, each with a URI. Both repeaters are linked together locally. I noticed while someone is using the machine, the TX will just stop while they are talking. If I switch to the other repeater, the TX is working fine. The URIs Red LED goes out. This happens to both machines. I have swapped and changed URIs and cables with no change. Any ideas? boB - W5EVH -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users To unsubscribe from this list please visit http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Enter your email address and press the "Unsubscribe or edit options button" You do not need a password to unsubscribe, you can do it via email confirmation. If you have trouble unsubscribing, please send a message to the list detailing the problem.
Hi Johnny, I got bit by the same bug before. :) This issue happens on both repeaters. It usually happens after 10 or so seconds after it starts TXing. This does not happen all the time, some times it works fine. The red LED on the URI goes out telling me that the PC stopped telling the URI to keep it keyed up. I am guessing a possible USB issue. boB - W5EVH On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Johnny Keeker <cypresstower@yahoo.com>wrote:
Is it the tkr850 that stops TX? You may have overlooked the kenwood software timeout timer must be disabled. I did the same thing......
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Subject: [App_rpt-users] Loosing TX To: "app_rpt mailing list" <App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org> Date: Friday, February 7, 2014, 4:22 PM
Group,
I have a site that is acting strange. I have a server with a VHF(Mastr II) and UHF(TKR-850) repeater, each with a URI. Both repeaters are linked together locally. I noticed while someone is using the machine, the TX will just stop while they are talking. If I switch to the other repeater, the TX is working fine. The URIs Red LED goes out. This happens to both machines. I have swapped and changed URIs and cables with no change. Any ideas?
boB - W5EVH
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On 02/07/2014 03:22 PM, Bob Roszkowski wrote:
Group,
I have a site that is acting strange. I have a server with a VHF(Mastr II) and UHF(TKR-850) repeater, each with a URI. Both repeaters are linked together locally. I noticed while someone is using the machine, the TX will just stop while they are talking. If I switch to the other repeater, the TX is working fine. The URIs Red LED goes out. This happens to both machines. I have swapped and changed URIs and cables with no change. Any ideas?
I've had that here before too, Bob. Usually it takes a hard-boot (pull the power till the caps discharge) to clear whatever issue occurs on the USB buss. Typically, it happens after I'm on HF (Ts-2000) with the Amp (TL-922A) but barefoot, I don't have an issue. Even if I'm not on HF, this happens about once every 5 days, or so. Machine is a Dell SCR Poweredge 4500, Motorola R-100 and TM-V7A on 2m simplex. 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR
I have had a couple of PC do this. The URI appears to be dead until you unplug and plug it in again then it comes back to life... until the next time it dies. Unfortunately that node is 2 hours away so I have to login remotely and reboot the box. This was happening almost daily. so we tried moving that URI cable to an other usb port on the PC and ran the radio tune save command. This may not be THE fix but it hasnt died yet and its been a month. YMMV. RQ On 2/8/2014 8:39 PM, Geoff wrote:
On 02/07/2014 03:22 PM, Bob Roszkowski wrote:
Group,
I have a site that is acting strange. I have a server with a VHF(Mastr II) and UHF(TKR-850) repeater, each with a URI. Both repeaters are linked together locally. I noticed while someone is using the machine, the TX will just stop while they are talking. If I switch to the other repeater, the TX is working fine. The URIs Red LED goes out. This happens to both machines. I have swapped and changed URIs and cables with no change. Any ideas?
I've had that here before too, Bob. Usually it takes a hard-boot (pull the power till the caps discharge) to clear whatever issue occurs on the USB buss.
Typically, it happens after I'm on HF (Ts-2000) with the Amp (TL-922A) but barefoot, I don't have an issue. Even if I'm not on HF, this happens about once every 5 days, or so.
Machine is a Dell SCR Poweredge 4500, Motorola R-100 and TM-V7A on 2m simplex.
73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR
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Hello, In my case, the URI never seems to go dead. I have seen that before but the URI is able to receive audio. After a few seconds, the red LED goes out. When the user unkeys, the repeater is able to TX again. I had a problem with a PC that was acting up one time. I needed to power cycle the machine to get it to work properly. My fix was to set a cron job to power off the PC at 3:59am. I set the BIOS to power on automatically when power is restored (eliminating the need to press the power button when power is applied). I put a Raspberry Pi at the site with a relay interface. Made a script to ping the AllStar Box, if there was no reply, it would cycle the relay off for 30 seconds, then back on. If there was a reply, it would wait 5 min and try once more. Not the best way to resolve the issue, but it was a way around it. lol With the Raspberry Pi in the cabinet, I had the ability to switch on and off anything I wanted via relay. I just needed to add more relays. I had SSH access to both boxes. I also planned to put a DTMF decoder on the RX of the repeater so I could hard boot the whole system if needed via RF. Just didn't have time. ;) boB - W5EVH On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 7:22 AM, REDBUTTON_CTRL <jrorke@cogeco.ca> wrote:
I have had a couple of PC do this. The URI appears to be dead until you unplug and plug it in again then it comes back to life... until the next time it dies.
Unfortunately that node is 2 hours away so I have to login remotely and reboot the box. This was happening almost daily. so we tried moving that URI cable to an other usb port on the PC and ran the radio tune save command.
This may not be THE fix but it hasnt died yet and its been a month.
YMMV. RQ
On 2/8/2014 8:39 PM, Geoff wrote:
On 02/07/2014 03:22 PM, Bob Roszkowski wrote:
Group,
I have a site that is acting strange. I have a server with a VHF(Mastr II) and UHF(TKR-850) repeater, each with a URI. Both repeaters are linked together locally. I noticed while someone is using the machine, the TX will just stop while they are talking. If I switch to the other repeater, the TX is working fine. The URIs Red LED goes out. This happens to both machines. I have swapped and changed URIs and cables with no change. Any ideas?
I've had that here before too, Bob. Usually it takes a hard-boot (pull the power till the caps discharge) to clear whatever issue occurs on the USB buss.
Typically, it happens after I'm on HF (Ts-2000) with the Amp (TL-922A) but barefoot, I don't have an issue. Even if I'm not on HF, this happens about once every 5 days, or so.
Machine is a Dell SCR Poweredge 4500, Motorola R-100 and TM-V7A on 2m simplex.
73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR
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