[Dx4win] DX4Win - Elecraft K3 - Remote Rig

[John, K9EL]

My laptop is connected to the Remote Rig box on the K3/0, so certainly there is no RF issue there.   But if ultimately DX4Win must detect connectivity back to the K3 itself, RF could be an issue.  In my case, it is not RF as the connection to the rig drops whether I am transmitting or not.

I will have to study exactly how the Remote Rig boxes work and then figure out a solution.  It is a pain to constantly lose the rig connection, and sometimes I am connected for 5 minutes and sometimes for hours.

I will increase the Max Tries to 6 and set the poll rate to 1000 and see if that helps.

The K3/K3-0 are about 2000 miles apart and both on Comcast.   Neither end has a fixed IP, but neither IP has changed for months.


73, John K9EL

-----Original Message-----
From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of N4QS, Dave Perry
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 8:48 AM
To: 'Kostas SV1DPI' <sv1dpi at otenet.gr>; dx4win at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX4Win - Elecraft K3 - Remote Rig

John and Kostas,

I also have a K3/0 mini and I am glad to hear this problem happens to other users.  (No, not really!)  My case is a little different.  I never have a problem with DX4WIN at the control site losing connection to the K3 at the remote site.  Stays connected -- rock solid for hours on end.  I think I set the poll rate at only 2000 ms and set max tries to 3.

My problem is with N1MM+.  It loses connection quite frequently -- about once or twice an hour on a good day.  That will typically throw me out of run mode and I must right click on the band map to Reset Radios.  I figured that N1MM+ is somehow polling the radio differently than DX4WIN.  There is a setting to slow the polling 50% and 100% versus normal, but the same thing happens on all three settings.  N1MM+ does not have a way to increase Max Tries -- so that may be the problem.  I have recently sent my issue to the N1MM+ reflector with no response.

Another ham in our local contest club mentioned that he once had the same issue and his problem ended up being RF getting into the computer cables.  He cured it by adding toroid filters to the cables.  Since DX4WIN works fine, I am not sure that is the answer to my problem.  But it could be yours -- think about if there is any chance RF is getting into the pc.

Let me know what you find out.

73,

Dave, N4QS



-----Original Message-----
From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kostas SV1DPI
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 11:35 PM
To: dx4win at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX4Win - Elecraft K3 - Remote Rig

I use a Kenwood 480 with remoterig and happens to me also. I believe the problem is that when dx4win looses cat control, deactivate the cat control (com port). Cat control via internet looses some packets from time to time. Dx4win thinks that lost the cm port and deactivate it.

I use the same setup with writelog also. When writelog looses the cat control the freq freezes, writelog continues to work and after some seconds finds again the radio.

Some others users complain about the same: Dx4win pop up a message every time it looses the CAT control - com port. Writelog behaviour would be much better to have.

...73 de Kostas SV1DPI
   (One of SZ1A-EP6T)

Στις 18/2/2018 3:10 πμ, ο John, K9EL έγραψε:
> I am using a K3/0 remote over the Internet to a K3.    DX4Win keeps losing
> the connection to the K3/0 on my laptop.  Sometimes it stays connected for
> 20 minutes, sometimes an hour.  I cannot figure out what is going on.   The
> laptop is connected to the Remote Rig box via USB.
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> Just wondering if anyone ever had an issue with staying connected to 
> Remote Rig boxes.
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> 73, John K9EL
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