A Flex 6700 owner's log: no connection attempt of any kind, and six
saves each answered with
cat: settings saved, link unchanged - staying connected
His settings were right — FlexRadio selected, 192.168.1.154, port 4992,
and the detector had found and named his radio back at him. What was off
was the master CAT switch, which sits above the radio dropdown.
Three things, because each of them failed him on its own.
The log line was false on both counts: a disabled CAT has the signature
"off", so every save took the unchanged branch and announced a link that
was staying connected when nothing was connected at all. It now says CAT
is switched off, which is the fact he needed and the only place it could
have reached him.
The panel says it too, where he was actually looking: a notice under the
switch while it is off, because everything below it can be perfectly
right and still connect to nothing.
And choosing a radio now ticks the switch. Picking a brand, typing an
address, running a detector and clicking the radio it found are all one
gesture — "connect to this" — and making the operator find a separate
master switch afterwards is a trap. Nothing here ever turns CAT off on
its own; they can still untick it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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