1. there was something a while back about setting the sound card priority to
'highest' as a way to prevent MMTTY lockups.
2. return the cables to their former rats nest glory - nice straight (or
even worse, coiled) cables attract RF - every time I try to make the cables
neat, bad things happen - randomness seems to cancel things out.
Re-randomize until it works again.
your grounding scheme is (from your description) identical to mine - I also
put everything on heavy duty surge protectors, for what it is worth.
...and my cables are a disaster...;-)
hope this helps! - jeff wk6i
At 11:04 AM 1/10/2005, Peter Laws wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Jerry Flanders wrote:
>
>> I would first see if it ACTUALLY is due to RF - turn off the power to the
>> radio and run a (simulated transmission) test to see if it still locks up.
>
>The problem is that it's not consistent. I did make over 250 QSOs, after
>all. After re-initing the MMTTY Engine the radio would sometimes get
>stuck in xmit ... but not always. I did notice that when I turned the
>radio back on that it would retune even though I hadn't changed frequency.
>
>
>> If it is due to RF, moving those cables around could have been the
>> culprit - you might have disturbed a ground connection.
>
>I'll check, but I don't think so. All the radios go to a copper bar and
>the bar is connected through the patch panel to an 8' ground rod not 10'
>from the station itself. The computer is only grounded through the 3-wire
>plug so I'm not sure what else I could do there. I'm thinking that it's
>more like some kind of proximity thing. Maybe make sure all the audio is
>as far from the RF as possible.
>
--
Jeff Stai jds@twistedoak.com
Twisted Oak Winery http://www.twistedoak.com/
Rocketry Org. of CA http://www.rocstock.org/
Amateur Radio WK6I
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