[TenTec] Orion logic issue

[Gary J FollettDukes HiFi]

Interesting comment.

I also discovered that doing a master reset will make the radio work ONCE.

The Master Reset does not run to completion. It stops at “Master Reset Complete”.

Then, if I power the radio off and then back on, everything works fine, without needing to interface to the N4PY software.

Then, upon powering down, the radio goes back to fault condition on repowering.

Gary


PS: I have a spare “button” board so I already tried replacing that. No change. At least I know that my spare button board is good!

> On Jul 31, 2016, at 11:52 AM, David W LeJeune, Sr <lejeuned at centurytel.net> wrote:
> 
> If you have terminal software available, start it up, set it to 57600 baud, no parity, one stopbit and RTS/CTS flow control on whatever serial port you have connected to the ORION.  Then send it this command:
> XX<cr>  (<cr> is the enter button on the keyboard).  This is the restart command.  It should respond with the following:
> " ORION STARTED"  (without the ")
> If this awakens the radio, then you have a firmware problem - probably a bad eprom where the firmware is stored.
> 
> I suspect XX<cr> is the first thing the N4PY software does.
> 
> Dave WN5V