Re: #qmx SSB Firmware beta 1_01_006 release
#qmx
Windows:
Edition ? ?Windows 11 Pro
Version ? ?24H2
Installed on ? ??11/?18/?2024
OS build ? ?26100.3775
Experience ? ?Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.66.0
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Installed QMX firmware 1_01_006.
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Set serial ports = 1:
One serial port show up in Device manager, and it works. Audio device works, WST-X is able to TX and RX normally.
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Set serial ports = 2:
Two serial ports show up in Device Manager, but they BOTH are assigned to the SAME COM port (COM5) - See Picture.
PUTTY or WSJT-X can connect to the QMX+, but they cannot both connect.
Looking at the USB device Details:
| Driver Detail Category |
First Port |
Second Port |
| Device Deescription |
USB Serial Device |
USB Serial Device |
| Device Instance Path |
USB\VID_0483&PID_A34C&MI_05\6&E2FE1CA&0&0005 |
USB\VID_0483&PID_A34C&MI_00\6&E2FE1CA&0&0000 |
| Hardware IDs |
USB\VID_0483&PID_A34C&REV_0100&MI_05
USB\VID_0483&PID_A34C&MI_05 |
USB\VID_0483&PID_A34C&REV_0100&MI_00
USB\VID_0483&PID_A34C&MI_00 |
| Compatible IDs |
USB\COMPAT_VID_0483&Class_02&SubClass_02&Prot_01
USB\COMPAT_VID_0483&Class_02&SubClass_02
USB\COMPAT_VID_0483&Class_02
USB\Class_02&SubClass_02&Prot_01
USB\Class_02&SubClass_02
USB\Class_02 |
USB\COMPAT_VID_0483&Class_02&SubClass_02&Prot_01
USB\COMPAT_VID_0483&Class_02&SubClass_02
USB\COMPAT_VID_0483&Class_02
USB\Class_02&SubClass_02&Prot_01
USB\Class_02&SubClass_02
USB\Class_02 |
| Capabilities |
00000080
CM_DEVCAP_SURPRISEREMOVALOK |
00000080
CM_DEVCAP_SURPRISEREMOVALOK |
| Status |
0180200A
DN_DRIVER_LOADED
DN_STARTED
DN_DISABLEABLE
DN_NT_ENUMERATOR
DN_NT_DRIVER |
0180200A
DN_DRIVER_LOADED
DN_STARTED
DN_DISABLEABLE
DN_NT_ENUMERATOR
DN_NT_DRIVER |
| Problem Code |
00000000 |
00000000 |
| Config Flags |
00000000 |
00000000 |
| Matching Device ID |
usb\class_02&subclass_02&prot_01 |
usb\class_02&subclass_02&prot_01 |
| Address |
00000007 |
00000002 |
| Rank of driver |
00FF2003 |
00FF2003 |
| Service |
usbser |
usbser |
| Bus reported device description |
QMX Transceiver |
QMX Transceiver |
| Display Name |
USB Serial Device (COM5) |
USB Serial Device (COM5) |
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There are a lot more, but mostly GUIDs and system stuff that are the same between both ports. Let me know if you need any others, this seems to be the pertinent ones.
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Tried changing one of the instances to COM6 and then opening them. the one on COM5 still opened properly, the one on COM6 gave this error:
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Set serial ports = 3:
No USB devices show up. Not serial ports nor audio device.
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I am willing to do whatever testing might help you Hans - even let you remote onto this computer if you think that will help.
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Erik - AD7OV
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Re: #qmx SSB Firmware beta 1_01_005 release
#qmx
Hi Hans,
the new calib feature is working much better! Thank you!
1. My QMX+ on had problems on 80m on 004 => on 005 it's working completely*. (*I didn't try 160m)
2. My QMX 80-20m had only a few bands working on 004, the currently running calib process looks much better on 005.
3. My QMX 20-10m (with added 6m) is still problematic:
? ? ? ? ?Only 12m is looking good in all 3 calib steps.
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Although the hardware of all devices is similar, the results are quite different.
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My Questions:
Do we have a top list of components with the greatest influence on the calibration process?
Maybe, it's not only the transmitter, but also the receiver?
Are there components, the builder can influence?
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Serial ports:
On Linux the serial ports are working fine, but for the first time I recognized that the modem manager was active.
It didn't interfere on 003 or earlier. The hints in the manual worked.
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PS:
I had fun with the high band QMX on Madeira.?
It was very easy to work several PY stations in CW on 10m!
For CW 003 is working very nicely.
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73 Peter DL4PJ
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Re: #qmx SSB Firmware beta 1_01_006 release
#qmx
One more information:
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Config with 1 Port
Starting PuTTY
CAT command FA; brings F as reaction and nothing more
no reaction after typing more commands
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Could it be something like a hand shake failure?
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73 Ludwig
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Re: #qcxmini BPF Alignment Issues
#qcxmini
Hi Scott. Don't do any changes to T-1. Photo shows it to be wound perfectly ... that is, if you intended to wind it for 40 meters... You should first verify you installed the correct capacitor at C5 (39 pF labeled 390) and then check for approximately 2.5v at pins 7 and 9 of IC4. If that isn't there then you probably still have some enamel on T-1 wires. Also look at the soldering on C1. The grounded leg is a little harder to get a good joint and needs a little more heat.?
Since you see it working with slight pressure applied, this pressure is probably bending the board and making a bad joint get better temporarily. Keep looking at the board with magnification. You will find it. And since that pressure makes it seem to come up to normal, then there is no need to re-wind T1. Just make sure all the connections are good.
Good luck ... Ron
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 9:32?AM Scott Rainey KO4BJW via <skot0123= [email protected]> wrote: I just finished my first kit, the QCX Mini. I have very little experience with soldering, other than a few arduinos and such, so I'm pretty new to this.
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When I go through the alignment steps I find that the BPF readings are very low, around 3-4 max. I've checked continuity on T1 legs and they appear to be fine between each pair. I did heat them up again just to make sure the enamel was burned off. A strange behavior I have found is that if I apply a little pressure on the display board towards the top edge of the screen or bottom edge, as indicated by the circled areas in the picture, the scale goes up to 8ish and is adjustable. I tried a hack to test if this made a real difference and wedged a little bit of paper in the spot, while in the case, to see if it held true but it didn't. Before I desolder and rewind T1 is there something else I should check? I do not own an oscilloscope, only a DVM.
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Re: #qmx SSB Firmware beta 1_01_006 release
#qmx
Hello Hans,
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thanks for so quick response. It's much better but not 100%.
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Config 1 port:
The device manager looks fine, 1 COM and 1 Audio
PuTTY starts now - ok!
ENTER into Putty brings no reaction - maybe a different storry.
no CAT control
Audio is ok (Audacity)
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Config 2 ports:
Device manager shows 1 COM and 1 Audio and 1 Other device - QMX Transceiver (not working, no driver)
Installed STMicroelectronics driver --> 2. COM-Port is shown
PuTTY starts for the first COM-port - ENTER without reaction
PuTTY starts for the second COM-port - ENTER without reaction
Audio is ok (Audacity)
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no entry to Menu of the QMX - Config locked by terminal
QMX off and on
Config 3 ports:
Device manager shows 2 COM-ports and 1 Audio and 1 USB Mass storage (Couldn't start)
no further tests yet
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73 Ludwig
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Re: #qmx SSB Firmware beta 1_01_005 release
#qmx
Serial port status with 1_01_006 on my Win10 home machine:
- selecting 1 port works fine (presents as COM10)
- selecting 2 ports work fine (present as COM10, COM12)
- selecting 3 ports does not work: no COM ports appear.? In device manager, the USB Composite Device has this status:
This device cannot start. (Code 10)
{Operation Failed}
The requested operation was unsuccessful.
I couldn't see anything else in the driver events/messages that seemed useful.
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But on my system with 1_01_004, all 3 ports worked fine, presenting as COM10, COM11, COM12.
The composite device started just fine.
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Stan KC7XE
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Re: Manual tuner selection?
This is how I tune but I find it difficult tuning while watching digits rapidly change. It would be great if there was an option to show the SWR on a bar graph of some sort.
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Re: #qmx SSB Firmware beta 1_01_005 release
#qmx
Here is the successful one.
Tony
AD0VC
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I had one success and one failure. I have attached the failure.
Tony
ADoVC
P.S. Tony please run 30m calibrarion and screenshot it at DAC 300 (or thereabouts) and again at it's completion or however far it gets.?
73 Hans G0UPL
Hi Tony
1 works, 2 works, but 3 ports results in no com ports.
Ok that will be another thing for me to investigate then, considering that 3 worked for you in 1_01_004.?
I'm keen to hear from Ludwig about Win7...
73 Hans G0UPL
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Re: #qmx SSB Firmware beta 1_01_005 release
#qmx
I had one success and one failure. I have attached the failure.
Tony
ADoVC
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P.S. Tony please run 30m calibrarion and screenshot it at DAC 300 (or thereabouts) and again at it's completion or however far it gets.?
73 Hans G0UPL
Hi Tony
1 works, 2 works, but 3 ports results in no com ports.
Ok that will be another thing for me to investigate then, considering that 3 worked for you in 1_01_004.?
I'm keen to hear from Ludwig about Win7...
73 Hans G0UPL
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Re: #QMX+ ongewenste eeprom initialisatie
Dank Hans, had dit vandaag 2 keer gehad was me eerder niet opgevallen.
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Re: #QMX+ ongewenste eeprom initialisatie
Dank Stan voor je snelle reactie!?
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Re: #qmx SSB Firmware beta 1_01_005 release
#qmx
P.S. Tony please run 30m calibrarion and screenshot it at DAC 300 (or thereabouts) and again at it's completion or however far it gets.?
73 Hans G0UPL
Hi Tony
1 works, 2 works, but 3 ports results in no com ports.
Ok that will be another thing for me to investigate then, considering that 3 worked for you in 1_01_004.?
I'm keen to hear from Ludwig about Win7...
73 Hans G0UPL
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Re: #qmx SSB Firmware beta 1_01_005 release
#qmx
Hi Tony
1 works, 2 works, but 3 ports results in no com ports.
Ok that will be another thing for me to investigate then, considering that 3 worked for you in 1_01_004.?
I'm keen to hear from Ludwig about Win7...
73 Hans G0UPL
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Re: #qmx SSB Firmware beta 1_01_005 release
#qmx
1 works, 2 works, but 3 ports results in no com ports.
Tony
AD0VC
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Hi Stan
1_01_006 is on the website... so let me know how it goes! By the way - all noted on remembering the last-visited sub-menu selections, leave that one with me.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 01:10 PM, Hans Summers wrote:
Then I expect that should also be the case in 1_01_005.
Except in the current 1_01_005 I have the same problem as everyone else, the USB device is unrecognized due to 'Configuration Descriptor Request Failed'.? The fix you just made should remedy that, so maybe my machine won't have the problem with 3 ports like
yours.
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Re: #QMX+ ongewenste eeprom initialisatie
I'll move it to the right button...
73 Hans G0UPL
Pressing left-button during power-on (or while QRP Labs is still showing on the screen) will cause the EEPROM to be completely cleared.? This is a design feature - perhaps it would be better implemented on a different button.
And yes, you will need to re-select your 'Band version' and re-calibrate and re-enter all of your configuration settings.
This has happened to me a couple of times when I press the menu button too quickly.
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Re: #QMX+ ongewenste eeprom initialisatie
Pressing left-button during power-on (or while QRP Labs is still showing on the screen) will cause the EEPROM to be completely cleared.? This is a design feature - perhaps it would be better implemented on a different button.
And yes, you will need to re-select your 'Band version' and re-calibrate and re-enter all of your configuration settings.
This has happened to me a couple of times when I press the menu button too quickly.
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Re: #qmx SSB Firmware beta 1_01_005 release
#qmx
Sorry, Hans, I didn't realize the code was being changed as I typed.
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Re: #qmx SSB Firmware beta 1_01_005 release
#qmx
Hi Stan
1_01_006 is on the website... so let me know how it goes! By the way - all noted on remembering the last-visited sub-menu selections, leave that one with me.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 01:10 PM, Hans Summers wrote:
Then I expect that should also be the case in 1_01_005.
Except in the current 1_01_005 I have the same problem as everyone else, the USB device is unrecognized due to 'Configuration Descriptor Request Failed'.? The fix you just made should remedy that, so maybe my machine won't have the problem with 3 ports like yours.
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Re: #qmx SSB Firmware beta 1_01_005 release
#qmx
Mine doesn't work with .005. The serial port is not recognized. Win11.
Back to .003, everything's fine.
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#qmx SSB Firmware beta 1_01_006 release
#qmx
Hi all
I updated the?SSB?beta?testing webpage of the brave, here:??and released?firmware?version?1_01_006 to it.?
As discussed in the other?thread... I believe I fixed the problem with USB not working on Windows machines; I tested it on my PC with its out-of-date Win10 which I have not logged into for several YEARS. It worked on USB Serial Ports = 1 and USB Serial Ports = 2 (also with USB sound card appearing) but not on USB Serial Ports = 3. When I boot my PC into Linux as normal, all three options work perfectly. See attached.?
Feedback awaited... and again my apologies for the error in 1_01_005. Just a single character typo which apparently Linux didn't mind but Windows did? ?:-/? ?
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Ronald Taylor
Peter Marks
