January 26, 2023
Finally was able to overcome the Wires-X issues I was having. I noticed in the Wires-X log file the phrase "Canceled call to Analog Node or Analog & Digital Room" when I was trying to connect to the Texas Patriots room. Wheras when I got the busy error was operating the radio in the Wires-X PDN mode which is for digital only rooms. In the Wires-X Portable Digital Node Function Instruction Manual, I saw a blurb where "The Portable Digital Node Mode may be not connected to anything other than a Digital Room or a Digital Node. In order to connect with the analog node station, it is necessary to ue the Portable HRI Mode." Aha! Let me try the Portable HRI Mode setup instead. I didn't know there was more than one way to connect to Wires-X, but apparently there are several ways! Once I setup the radio into Portable HRI Mode, I was able to use the computer (not the radio) to connect to the Texas Patriots room. Live and learn. As far as the mysterious reboot problem I was experiencing, I don't have a good answer for the fix. Maybe it was a loose cable, maybe it was the USB dropping from my windows virtual machine instance. I don't know. If it happens again, I will have to address that, but so far so good today.