[Elecraft] RemoteRig K3/0 to K3/100 Issues

[Steven Bertsch]

I have a friend who uses a K3/0 and remotes to my K3/100 and we haven't had any connection issues yet. He lives 100 miles from me. Our ISP's are Comcast.

73, Steve K6SAB


On Sep 30, 2013, at 5:10 PM, bwruble at gmail.com wrote:

> Restarting the control RRC rarely solves it for me, unfortunately. Thanks. 
> 
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> Brian F. Wruble, C.F.A.
> 1107 Key Plaza, PMB 447 Key West, FL 33040 
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>> On Sep 30, 2013, at 7:44 PM, Rick Tavan N6XI <rtavan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, I've found that simply restarting the control RRC seems to work for me.. It's an annoying work-around but less odious than the things you've been doing. Of course, your failure mode may be different, but the description sounds the same.
>> 
>> 73,
>> 
>> /Rick 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Brian F. Wruble <bwruble at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all:
>>> 
>>> I have my remote gear all working extremely well.  I can set up the control
>>> end as close as the same LAN as the radio end, or as far as 110 miles away,
>>> and the results are excellent.  I have a nagging bug, however.
>>> 
>>> Quite frequently, but not always, after I have shut down the K3/0 (which
>>> shuts down the remote K3/100), when I turn it back on again, it fails to
>>> make the connection.  This can happen a day later or an hour later.
>>> 
>>> Fortunately, the problem is always solvable from the control end --- it
>>> seems to relate to the control RemoteRig's way of connecting to its LAN ---
>>> I think.  The kinds of things I try that usually result in restored comms
>>> include:
>>> 
>>> Switching from wifi to hardwired at the control end.
>>> 
>>> Or ... going the other way.
>>> 
>>> One thing that almost always works is cycling the radio-end router, which I
>>> can do using a remotely controlled ip power switch.  Bringing the radio end
>>> router down for 30 seconds and restarting almost always works.
>>> 
>>> Has anyone a suggestion for what might be causing this maddeningly
>>> intermittent problem?
>>> 
>>> Tnx.  73 de Brian W3BW
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> *Brian F. Wruble, C.F.A.
>>> 
>>> *70 is the new 40.*
>>> *
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>> Rick Tavan N6XI
>> Truckee, CA
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