Quantar resetting every 2 hours 41 minutes

[MikeOxlong]

Hello fellow Batlabbers.

I'm now the proud owner of a Range 1 VHF Quantar (125W) which I plan on unleashing on the unsuspecting hams around here.

So far it's tuned up (not really much to tune up) and a site has been selected.

I've only encountered two problems so far:

The potential show stopper is a reset every 2 hours 41 minutes. The status report shows:

SC ROOT 625 SYS_RESET

in the log.

So far I've been unable to uncover what's doing it.

The control firmware of this unit is 20.09.044 and I've conditioned the codeplug as it suggested.

This beast has a wireline card but I've disabled it in the rss.

It's a problem I could potentially live with but it keeps resetting the local speaker to CSQ which will drive someone crazy when the repeater is repeating digital.

Any ideas?

[RKG]

That message does not appear in the list of status messages listed in the Quantar RSS manual.

My initial inclination is to suspect that something is glitching the power to the station, and it is performing a normal power restore reboot. Perhaps you can attach a recording DVM to your power source to see if such is the case.

Beyond that, I'd reboot the station and run a complete diagnostic to see if it can detect a hardware or software failure. From the Main menu, go: F2 to Service, then F5 to Diagnostics, F8 to Run Now. See what the report says.

[MikeOxlong]

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Right now it's on my work bench running off 120V AC but I'll be putting it on the +24V DC infrastructure at the site when it moves.

I ran the diagnostics when the problem first appeared and couldn't find anything.

[fineshot1]

Sounds like possibly a timing issue. Where/who did you aquire this quantar from? Quantars can be configured to use an external clock source(gps, rubidium, etc.) and sync the internal clock with the external. If the RSS parameter is still setup for an external clock source you may need to change it to internal clock to correct this problem. The previous owner probably had it set up to sync to that external network clock that you are now not feeding it.....fineshot1

[MikeOxlong]

Set for internal clock when I got it so no external timing was used (or it was changed before I bought it).

I will have a 10Mhz external GPS derived reference available onsite when the repeater is moved. Would I be any better off using that on what will be a conventional, non-simulcast repeater?

[fineshot1]

I would have to answer your question and say " no " unless you may be having an internal timing hardware problem. In that case the external reference 10Mhz clock may solve or rather bypass the problem. Try the external reference clock and see if the quantar stops crashing. If so you could have an internal timing issue. One other thing - check all possible RSS timing/clock parameters. Its possible there is a RSS conflict...fineshot1

[MikeOxlong]

Looks like it was a case of flaky power.

Moved the repeater to it's new home and the resets have stopped. Currently running off of commercial AC until I can hook it up to the +24v battery stack in the site.

Located near Barrie, Ontario, Canada.

147.285+, pl 156.7hz/NAC 293.

No bells, whistles or otherwise.

[willbartlett]

Not to revive an old issue here, But I have something very similar going on here.

My station seems to reset every 1:28. I get an error of:

1900/01/15.22:50:58 1 SC ROOT 665 SYS_RESET 247

1900/01/16.00:18:45 1 SC ROOT 665 SYS_RESET 248

1900/01/16.01:46:31 1 SC ROOT 665 SYS_RESET 249

1900/01/16.03:14:17 1 SC ROOT 665 SYS_RESET 250

1900/01/16.04:42:03 1 SC ROOT 665 SYS_RESET 251


I do have numerous wireline errors as well, and will turn that off. I am set for internal reference, although I can go to a site GPS 10mhz ref if it helps.

Looks like I need to update the date and time as well.....

I believe I have one of the older power supplies, which I understand may be problematic. Might see about swapping that out for something newer.

Will