[WB4SON] FLEX6600M Springs back to life
 

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FLEX6600M Springs back to life

Posted: 04 May 2020 02:48 PM PDT
https://wb4son.com/wpblog/?p=4099


Late last year, I purchased a FlexRadio 6600M along with its companion
Maestro remote head.Â* I had the radio installed in my basement shack (I
call it the Wombat Room, but everyone else calls it the furnace room), and
I kept the Maestro in the 3rd floor bedroom.Â* My morning routine included
doing at least 45 minutes of PT upstairs, and usually chatting with some
friends up and down the East Coast on 20 meters.Â* Things worked well for
about five months.

After powering the radio off about ten days ago to do some cable management
(clean up the rats nest of coax and other assorted cables what fool
decided to call this wireless?), when I powered it back on a few days
later, it did not start up properly.Â* It complained about having no
Ethernet connection.Â* I tried all the user manual things (warm reset, cold
reset, swapping cables, etc.) with no luck.Â* I reached out to Flex Service
and Tim Ellison, W4TME, quickly responded.Â* He suggested that a microSD
card, used to boot the internal mini PC had become corrupted.

I got an email from Tim today telling me that the card had been delivered
and asking if I had tried things out.Â* That caught my attention Tim was
more aware of what was going on outside my house than I was.Â* Sure enough a
package was in the mailbox with the SD card.Â* Within 30 minutes I had the
cover off, and the new card installed.Â* As Tim suggested, it was the cure.Â*
My FLEX6600M has been restored to operation!



Its a bit scary to think that a dead SD card took me down for a week, and
Ive decided to run the radio off of a UPS just so nothing funny happens
with the power supply (not that I had noticed anything strange with the
house power in the past few weeks).Â* But the story has a happy ending, and
Flex Service was great.Â* Thanks Tim!