I have been attempting to use my DigRrig with both a windows home 11 edition and my work laptop running windows 10 enterprise. The DigiRig is connected to a BaoFeng with the cables from DigiRig. What I’m seeing with both VaraFM and SoundModem, the Audio USB device works for about 2 minutes and then it crashes. With the Windows 10 laptop the crash takes my USB mouse with it. It is only after I disconnect the DigiRig cable does the mouse comes back. With my Windows 11 machine the system needs to be rebooted to recover from the crash.
is the crashing upon TX, or is it crashing just idling ?
is this a digirig mobile or lite?
kb0wlf
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Mobile and yeah it was just idling. It dies between attempts to connect.
“Attempts to connect” involve keying up the radio, correct?
@webmonkey 's line of questioning is to establish if the crashing is caused by the RFI.
You can also try the same with a dummy load for antenna - this removes any possibility of RFI. If that stops crashing then the issue was caused by the RF power disrupting the work of the USB controller.
With my home computer the laptop locks up on the transmit.
yes, sounds like RFI
the other thought, if only idling, never TX, would be the comport driver (stated mobile, not lite). installing the cp201 driver with SERIAL ENUMERATOR can cause issues.
lockup/dropout/erratic pointer/etc on TX sounds like RFI
as suggested, dummy load on radio.
also you can try:
‘route’ cables so that radio is as far away from the DR and the PC.
turn the radio power down to lowest setting.
before all that, you can push the ptt button on the baofeng radio itself and see if it locks up the pc all on it’s own.
(everything connected and loaded on the pc, just not clicking TX on the pc)
if it does lockup, you’ve just about diagnosed RFI
good luck
kb0wlf
Last night just unplugged the cable from the HT and it didn’t suffer the lock up. Soundmodem didn’t hear anything of course but that seems to be issue. I’m wondering if I the USB cables from digirig might help.
Choked cables will certainly improve the station. Adding a counterpoise to the antenna is another thing to consider:
The problem was solved by using the choked USB cable from DigiRig. Last night I was able to successfully communicate with several BBS systems with packet radio. I also used a digipeter as well.
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Great result!
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