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Hi everyone,
I have had two ShipXplorer AIS dongles fail on me in the past 6 months. The first one failed last December after years of use, so I replaced it. The next one worked fine until yesterday, but now it is no longer recognized by the computer. I have tried different USB ports, multiple reboots, reinstalled Powershell, etc. with no luck.
These are the same symptoms that the first dongle displayed. I tested the first dongle on the computer and the behaviour is still the same.
The Powershell command line I have been using is:
cd c:\Radio\AISCatcher
.\AIS-catcher -d:0 -gr TUNER 45.0 RTLAGC off BIASTEE off -a 192K -v 10 -u 127.0.0.1 10110 -M DT -N 8100 LAT 49.7 LON -123.1 REALTIME on SHARE_LOC on FILE stat.bin BACKUP 10
and the error I get is:
usb_open error -12
Error: RTLSDR: cannot open device.
UDP: close socket for host: 127.0.0.1, port: 10110
It does not show up in Device Manager - when it is plugged in, Device Manager re-enumerates, but no new devices appear.
The dongle is isolated from the antenna with a lightning arrestor and a multicoupler, and none of the other equipment connected is having issues, so a surge isn't the cause.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is it possible that a Windows update has done something to my access to the ports? Or is it just bad luck?
Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks in advance!
de VE7HUN
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