I have another new identical antenna which I just put on and rebooted. Pulled satellites withing a few short minutes. Not sure if it was battery or 2nd antenna. Thank you for your help.

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I checked the battery- was .275V and luckily I had new ones on hand. Booting up now- pic attached for hat version (I don't know how else to check the version) Thx

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TL;DR my rig possibly has busted finals, DRAWS does not provide rig control through din-6, please recommend a known good USB Ci-V cable In your first reply to my post, you said this: >>> I use this fr

The 2 screws are extras. They’re so small I knew someone would lose them or We’d miscount and send 7. The IKEA model 73, Bryan K7UDR NW Digital Radio

I do not have an "accessory port cable" so can't comment. Try to be more descriptive. What fldigi mode are you using? Are you using another radio to monitor? Most likely your ALSA settings are not opt

The parts arrived yesterday. When I assembled the case, I had two extra case screws — hopefully the other two were extras. The software setup was straightforward and well-documented which was awesome.

so does look to be like an RFI issue i was getting. did a bit of house keeping. Separated the 6pin-din away from from the coax best as possible. Spent the evening making contacts all over Europe! than

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What version of HAT do you have? udrcver.sh

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Once the GPS is up and running, look at the command cgps or gpsmon and see how many satellites and their strength. You may have a weak or defective antenna? Have you put the battery on the DRAWS™ boar

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Anyone? Slow to non functional GPS?

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John Spoonhower <jpspoonhower@...> writes: That is quick test I use. If the "get_throttled" register is zero, things are good. There are 8 bits that could be set in that register, 4 at the top o

Basil, what does the hex code returned by pi_throt.sh mean? I have 5 pis running different tasks from radio control to home automation. All of them report 0x00. Their cpu temps range from 38 - 68 C. S

See responses embedded. John Spoonhower <jpspoonhower@...> writes: Great news John, thanks for letting me know. This installer is not very smart and it just re-installs everything. npm ALWAYS th

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A friend of mine has had 2 Pi 3B+ go into thermal runaway. The thing we concluded was that the heat sinks were not installed properly or cheap heat sinks did not bond properly to the chips and running

Basil, thanks once again. All is well now. Seems stable. I have included some output, a few comments, and a very few questions (for the purpose of my education) inserted below. 73, John, NX2I this was

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Hi John, Some things to try: # Update your local n7nix repo # The following will also make sure your sensors config file is current # which is required by DRAWS manager cd cd n7nix/config ./bin_refres

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Well Crap! The Pi3B+ I just bought last week is the culprit. It seemed to work OK at first blush, but shortly it began to do some of those unpredictable things we were chasing. At first temp was not p

Basil or John, I am seeing some new strangeness when trying to startup the draws manager.When I startup with the commandkline it like OK: mgr-ctrl.sh start Starting: draws-manager pi@draws:~ $ mgr-ctr

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Supper helped... and I have a bottle of Makers Mark at hand. I left the unit off, so we’ll see how it behaves using the steps below. Jack - KD4IZ

Basil, responses are below. I see that direwolf fails to start. Looks like I am OK now that pulseaudio is stopped/desabled. thanks! John, NX2I systemctl status direwolf ● direwolf.service - Direwolf D