[Elecraft] AUTOINF Auto 1 Anomaly

[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 SteppIR began tracking just fine. I turned off the logger and it stopped tracking again. It was exactly as if AUTOINF was set to nor. So I cycled that setting, changing AUTOINF to nor and then back to Auto 1. Finally, the SteppIR resumed tracking without the logger. Has anyone else seen this or have an idea why Auto 1 quietly stopped sending frequency messages until I cycled it?

(I could have power cycled the radio before cycling AUTOINF but did not. I'll try that if it happens again.)

Thanks,

/Rick N6XI