Promax Ranger - Owners/Users Topic

I tried, but I cannot get a propper signal at 11699 H on 16.0E. Sorry... :(
 
John said:
Youv'e got them bloody crayons out again :p. Didn't realise the Neo went down to 2 MHz span - very useful. Our tatty old Rangers only go down to 10 MHz span,
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@John

Not me with the crayons sir, it was Promax, they used the crayons in their video.
My Ranger Neo+ does not go down to 2 MHz span, it is 10 MHz, same as yours. It is the next model up in the range that can do the 2 MHz span.

However, from reading Vitor's feedback on editing some of the firmware update files I thought that it might be possible to get the non specified Ranger models to achieve a 2 MHz span.
It seems from the reply from Vitor in post 20 above that this might be possible?
 
On a different note: the FW server seems to be down. Even NetUpdate 4 cannot find the server and issues an error.
 
@moonbase: send me the current FW upgrade file. It should be a ZIP file and it should be in the NetUpdate4 folder on C:\.
 
vma said:
On a different note: the FW server seems to be down. Even NetUpdate 4 cannot find the server and issues an error.
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It has been down for some time.
Promax are moving away from using the FW Server in favour of some other web method.

I contacted Promax to get a firmware update file which they sent by email.
 
vma said:
@moonbase: send me the current FW upgrade file. It should be a ZIP file and it should be in the NetUpdate4 folder on C:\.
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It is a large file, 121mb when zipped, too large to upload to this forum.
I updated my meter with a USB stick containing the firmware update.

Sent you PM.
 
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I will look at it over the weekend. I am away from home at the moment.
 
moonbase said:
It is the 16.0 East beacon at 11699.20 H.

I have attached a picture of the beacon below taken with a span of 2 MHz, other settings were Persistence = ON, Averaging = 7
The YouTube video is in the link below.



I need help, I am morphing into a wavy line merchant (bows head in shame).

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Interesting video MB , not seen that before
 
moonbase said:
It is the 16.0 East beacon at 11699.20 H.

I have attached a picture of the beacon below taken with a span of 2 MHz, other settings were Persistence = ON, Averaging = 7
The YouTube video is in the link below.



I need help, I am morphing into a wavy line merchant (bows head in shame).

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Confession: Iv'e had the crayons out MB. ** 16east Beacon.
1.2 CM, North Nottinghamshire.
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John said:
Confession: Iv'e had the crayons out MB. ** 16east Beacon.
1.2 CM, North Nottinghamshire.
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Looks like you enabled "Persistence".

That beacon peak at 11699.20 splits into 5 sub peaks in the Promax beacon video I linked to above.
They were using a Ranger model with 1 Mhz and 2 MHz span range options and a resolution bandwith of 40 KHz.
 
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