[OZAPRS] VK3XCI -10 (-15)

[Norm McMillan]

Ray, Liz

seems like theiGate at the bottom of the garden is a popular theory. I'll
work some more on it after Xmas. I have all sorts of birdies in the shack
so the tried and trusted hardware will have to do till after the Jolly Red
Giant has been. I'm expecting things! 😀

norm vk3xci

On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 7:25 AM Ray <aprs at exemail.com.au> wrote:

> Norm,
>
> The Pi up the mast at the antenna was an idea that worked fairly well
> except for the dongle "disconnect", and intermittent RFI on 145.825 from
> the Cat5 cable to the Pi. The installation was for ADS-B (1090MHz). My
> masthead box now contains a LNA4ALL and 1090MHz BPF, and the Pi hangs on
> the wall in the shed, which I find much more convenient. Current uptime
> on that Pi is 99 days. Maybe you'll have similar success.
>
> Ray vk2tv
>
> On 3/12/20 7:38 pm, Norm McMillan wrote:
> > No, I didn't run dmesg Ray. The gear was at the bottom of the garden
> > so I just cycled the power. There is a script around to restart it
> > every minute or so, but I'd rather find the real cause. It's in the
> > shack now and hooked up to a keyboard. monitor. Given my luck it won't
> > happen again! Interesting, The dongle was "hanging" off the USB
> > cable... I might look further into that. Thank you.
> >
> > norm vk3xci
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:47 PM Ray <aprs at exemail.com.au
> > <mailto:aprs at exemail.com.au>> wrote:
> >
> >     I don't have much faith in some USB plugs and sockets. In my case
> >     I had
> >     the RPi and dongle in a box mounted up the mast. Bumping the
> >     bottom of
> >     the mast caused enough vibration for the dongle to fail due to
> >     momentary
> >     loss of contact. A reboot of the Pi restored the service, ready
> >     for the
> >     next bump!
> >
> >     Did you think to check dmesg and /var/log/syslog for any clues?
> >     Hint: If
> >     you run dmesg -T you timestamp the results. dmesg -C will clear
> >     all entries.
> >
> >     Ray vk2tv
> >
> >     On 3/12/20 2:30 pm, Norm McMillan wrote:
> >     > Good afternoon,
> >     > The Mildura iGate has reverted to the old -10 set up. ie Pi 3B+ >
> >     > Xastir > Tiny2 > Syntrx. Its now Tx/Rx gate and back in the shack.
> >     >
> >     > The remote Pi0W > Dire Wolf|rtl_fm > RTL-SDR proved too unreliable.
> >     > for some reason rtl_fm or the dongle itself kept hanging up. It
> >     would
> >     > run for weeks without a proble then drop out twice a day. Anyone
> >     got
> >     > any ideas?
> >     >
> >     > Norm vk3xci
> >     >
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