Negative, I reboxed the Anan boards and installed a bootloader switch on the front panel so I can run bootloader without moving the rack in which the radio is installed. The ethernet cable is a new high grade CAT6 cable. Maybe the ethernet socket on the Orion board is faulty but I doubt. All the tro...

Hi Scott,

that's exactly what I did.

But no luck so far...

73s

Hi All ! I flashed Metis_Orion_NP_v1.9.15.rbf on my 200D which was almost working well with Orion_NP_v1.9_pre3metis.rbf. (rare PS not kicking in). I whish I had never done this ! The change made Thetis (base version 2.8.11 10.20.20) hang almost immediately after startup. When I reverted to v1.9_pre3...

hi

This is easy to check by listening to WWV or any known (good) frequency standard.

Ok Scott,

I skipped the drive level mentionned by Tokio which is obviously related to a transmit problem.
This might indicate a FW problem, and could be tested by flashing a previous FW version.
Still the timing gremlin ?

73

Phil, FM5GB

Hi Tokio Did you check your computer, monitor and its power supply and your radio's power supply (including the internal switching power supply if any)? When disconnecting your antenna and/or connecting to a dummy load the only spurs getting into the radio would come from one of these sources. Why d...

Hi Scott When I decrease Sample Rate to 192000 or lower all trouble is gone. I had noted that long before. Then I increase SR gradually up to 1536000 while monitoring an FM modulated signal on 145.000 MHz (audio 700 Hz in 1 second pulses FM déviation 10 kHz). I also watch closely the frame drop red ...

Ok Chris; unfortunately the previous versions of FW did nor work on my setup. I had to flash the very latest v1.9 pre4 FW to get out of trouble especially in transverter operation. I will try to live with it; after all the cracking noises remind the old 33 RPM pop music records when I was a teenager...

Hi all Yes I tried tweaking the network card setting in W10 with no luck (using a dedicated NIC for the Orion board with no other client on this). I noticed no change after W10 updates. CPU load increases 50% (x 1.5) when selecting FM mode (this seems a little less since I've increased the RX buffer...

Hi Chris Yes I did all the registry mods beginning with throttling FFFFFFFF, and then the two others one by one (by the way the values of the last dword line was allready the recommended ones). Very unfortunately things are still as odd. My very maximum SR is 798000 on RX one in order to eliminate d...

Hi Chris I forgot to tell you I was using an old Orion MK1 board from an Anan 200D. So I believe the board and its firmware is probably also involved in the issue. I'm not using VAC either. When using 1536000 Sample Rate (RX one running alone) Thetis displays 9 to 14 % total CPU load. A third party ...

Hi, Of course I adjusted the throttle value in the register. This improved things under 768000 SR only marginally. 1536000 SR is useless and should not even be provided as an option in Thetis. Note that this issue is much more important in FM mode : why ? When you consider other setups (the so calle...

Hi, The higher the sample rate the more issues (audiocracks and frame dropouts) will occur. The highest I can run without problems is 768000. Of course any other computer activity will disturb Thetis. I'm getting more and more annoyed by this and consider a "thin client" solution. 73s Phil...

Hi all I have (had) exacly the same behaviour on my router (RT-AC66U, same as your's but without modem) : it would show the radio as long it has power supply but when power on is activated it would disappear after some time (for the router to routine scan the network). I don't think this impairs any...

Hi Scott DDUtil last version is for use with Flex Radios and the last versions only work with the signature series (6xxx). To enjoy DDUtil with Flex legacy or Anan radios with Power SDR or Thetis you must install a version prior to version 3.2.5.xx. (DDUtil_V3) This drive control may be set by band ...

Hi Dima

Try to assign a correct IP address in bootloader. Sometimes an old IP adress is kept in the FPGA memory and that makes it impossible
for Thetis to find the radio while bootloader is still seeing it.

Hope this is the trick.

73s Phil FM5GB

Hi Keith I experienced the same trouble when importing databases : the Xverter table was missing. You should save your transmit profile in Setup/Transmit/Profiles when done with your transverter data input in the table. This worked on my setup (Anan 200D, Thetis 2.8.11, last FW 1.9. Win10). This doe...

Sorry Dave,

the last version of firmware for your 200D is Metis_Orion_NP_v1.9_pre4.rbf which you may download from
Scott's link.

Please tell us it works for your setup.

73s Phil FM5GB

Hi Dave !
I had the same issue with my 200D. You must install protocol 2 firmware : Orion_NP_v1.9_pre3metis.rbf. Previous versions did NOT work properly. This last version implements PA disable function correctly. To be downloaded on Github.

73s. Phil FM5GB

Hi Jeff I'm using a rebuilt TRX from an Orion MK 1 board taken from an ANAN 200D (to be seen on my QRZ.com page). Before the last version of FW (1.9 for Orion) I had trouble with the transverter function. Which FW version are you running ?. Make sure you flash the latest Protocol 2 FW for your radio...

Hi OM, I utilize a 200D, an SPE 1KFA power amp, and HRD. OS is W10 pro 64, vspMgr for virtual COM ports. I don't know the 2K-FA amp but basically it shoud work as the 1K-FA The first thing should be to check the available COM ports in W10 device manager. There should be AT LEAST one legacy COMport (...

Hi Concerning FM mode I noticed a strong increase in processor load in this mode versus all others. This may cause frame drops and audio glitches. This is more obvious on high sample rates. Do you have the same experience ? Concerning you low audio output you should increase your MIC gain enough to ...

Hi all, As I told before I had a problem with Thetis (frame drops shown by the red square with occasional video freeze and audio dropouts) occuring very often with a 1536000 sample rate and not quite as much with 768000 SR. So I eventually decided to install a NIC on my PCIe bus solely dedicated to ...

Hi all I have the same problem with a Starlight here too. I'm considering the purchase of a Compact also. Since I've been retired I have so much things to do (many ham do-it-yourself projects in progress, gardening, hiking etc) that I did'nt investigate with the Midi translator. Merry Christmas to a...

Hi all ! I ran SFC, it discovered and corrected some alleged corrupt files in the System. This did'nt change anything. Strangely lost frames and audio glitches reappeared during some time though I did not change ANY item in setup. I could not find any application running in the background. Now thing...

Hi all First let me thank you Scott : I had forgotten to check the VSync box on both versions of Thetis. Doing that improved the frame dropout by 99.9%. (using two, now old, NVIDIA GTX 750 cards on two full HD 22" full HD Samsung monitors). I tried to investigate more extensively the processor ...

Hi all ! Setup : ANAN 200D, I7 4770K @3.8 GHz 24 Gb RAM 0.5 Tb SSD. Win10 pro 64.. After having installed Thetis 64 I experienced too high processor load (controlled with various monitoring programs). Lots of frame drops (red square blinking at upper left), and even audio drops occured. This was mor...

Hi Ramdor

I got a Hercules Starlight and I am experiencing the same problem : I can't get the
console working thru the midi interface in Thetis.
Could you give some details concerning the use of the midi translator ? I am stuck.

Best 73s Phil FM5GB

Hi Joen N9VX Distorsion and echoes on your transmitted signal may indicate RF feedback. It should not occur on every ham band and could be cured by eliminating ground loops in your shack. Sometimes your mike and audio line may pick up RF as well. I solved the problem by using a balanced line for the...

Hi all, 2.8.9/64 seems to work great. Thanks to all developers for yielding such a great software. During install I noticed a delay during the "removing shortcuts" message but after some time install resumed and everything went OK. Refrain from interrupting the process... 73s Phil FM5GB By...