Bob,
I'm sure you've done it already, but check that the cables between the
radios and PCs are firmly in place. Maybe your banging on the table caused
them to fall out of the jacks.
If absolutely nothing else has changed in the configuration, it's possible
that there's been some lightning damage. We've had a few powerful storms
here in NE the past few weeks. Despite an elaborate protection system, I
lost a few items: a modem on my wife's computer (I neglected to run the
phone line through a surge suppressor), a couple of CMOS ICs in my homebrew
2-radio antenna switch interface, a darlington transistor array in a TopTen
decoder [I'm still trying to figure out how those items got fried -- they
should have been well-protected.] I also lost my CD player, but that could
be due to other caused (it's been back to the factory three times.) My DVD
player's CPU got scrambled and needed a reset, but I'm not sure on the cause
of that either. However, neither my 1000mp nor my 1000D shows any sign of
damage.
Does either computer have a modem attached to an unprotected phone line?
73, Dick WC1M
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-1000mp@qth.net [mailto:owner-1000mp@qth.net]On Behalf Of
Robert Shohet
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 10:40 AM
To: 1000mp@qth.net; ct-user@contesting.com
Subject: [1000mp] FT1000MP radio control problem
Hi Guys,
Weird problem just developed with BOTH FT1000MP's.
I am using 2 FT1000MP's on 2 computers with CT ver 9.53. When I used this
setup in WPXCW, CT, BOTH radios and both computers talked to each other
flawlessly.
Now, six weeks later, the same 2 FT1000MP's can't talk to the computers.
BOTH radios give me a "radio timeout" message. For control purposes, I went
back into the WPXCW logs with NO settings changed. What worked perfectly 6
six weeks ago, does not work now. Nothing in the setup has changed nor have
any cables been moved.
The radios can talk to each other using the Alt G ("Gab") function, but
whenever I try to change freq. using the keyboard I get the "radio timeout"
message. Likewise, when I change bands with the radio, the computer does
not note the freq. change.
Several weeks ago I was banging something on the operating table and I
wondered whether or not this might have affected the 'MP's - but there
appear to be no ill effects other than the radios/computers can't talk with
each other.
Any thoughts on what the problem might be and how to diagnose it?
If one radio didn't talk to the computer I might think it was a damaged
radio/computer interface, but BOTH radios?
Your help and thoughts please.
Tnx & 73
Bob KQ2M
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