Re: [Elecraft] AUTOINF Auto 1 Anomaly

2015-03-26 Thread Don Wilhelm
I have been informed by those who really know that my statement is incorrect. If the K3 is set to AUTOINFO=1, the SteppIR should receive the K3 band and frequency information without a logger being active. 73, Don W3FPR On 3/25/2015 10:29 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: Rick, When used with a

Re: [Elecraft] AUTOINF Auto 1 Anomaly

2015-03-26 Thread Rick Bates
You know this but... By hardware reboot, he means complete shutdown to power off; unplug power source; count to a hundred by Pi; then bringing it all back up. Sometimes 'off' isn't OFF and a soft reboot doesn't clear buffers (requires power gone). 73, Rick wa6nhc Tiny iPhone 5 keypad,

Re: [Elecraft] AUTOINF Auto 1 Anomaly

2015-03-26 Thread Tony Estep
Rick, obviously if it worked before, and it's working now, your hookup can not be the problem and never could have been. One possible cause: The communication chips that send and receive this sort of message have a little bit of on-board memory, which is used as a ring buffer. Sometimes, due to a

Re: [Elecraft] AUTOINF Auto 1 Anomaly

2015-03-26 Thread Mike K2MK
Hi Rick, I would like to comment on the mystery cycling between 14000 and 14050. I have experienced this behavior. Do you have more than one SteppIR controller? Are they slaved together and is the master controller the older style and the slave controller(s) the SDA100 style? If yes, then the

Re: [Elecraft] AUTOINF Auto 1 Anomaly

2015-03-26 Thread Rick Tavan
Thanks, Don. That's what I thought. Cycling AUTOINF Off, then On got it working again. But after that it kept cycling between 14.000 and 14.050 as if the K3 were sending bogus IF; messages. It did this several times during most minutes until I power cycled the radio. So now I have seen two

Re: [Elecraft] AUTOINF Auto 1 Anomaly

2015-03-25 Thread Don Wilhelm
Rick, When used with a logging program, the SteppIR controller only listens on the RS-232 signalling - it does not initiate any data requests from the K3 (it depends on the logging program to poll for that data. If the logging program is not active, then SteppIR must poll for band information

[Elecraft] AUTOINF Auto 1 Anomaly

2015-03-25 Thread Rick Tavan
All of a sudden, my SteppIR stopped tracking my K3 even though the SteppIR controller was in General Mode. This has been working for years and I had made no recent changes to cabling. I confirmed that CONFIG AUTOINF was set to Auto 1. Then I ran a logging program that polls the radio and the