John you are 100% on the money. Ed, K1EP, gave a perfect description of
something running in the background taking over the system momentarily then
giving the system back to CTWIN. Anyone who is using WINXP can type
Ctrl+Alt+Del one time(not twice) and a window will pop-up showing the status of
the system. When the window pops up click on processes. Be careful if you have
a weak heart because there is a lot of shtuff running in the background in
WINXP, much more than there ever was with WIN98. Each users environment is
different so what works for me may not work for you. The best thing is to
experiment in between contests and try to determine what your computer needs
and doesn't need to function properly.
MAL N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
http://geocities.com/n7mal/
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
It's already tomorrow in Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: John Bednar
To: ct-user@contesting.com
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 0:02
Subject: Re: [ct-user] CW keying
I don't doubt the reports that I am reading but I suspect that the
problems that you are experiencing are due to other programs running
on your computers and not so much CTWin's fault. These might be
programs that you are aware of, programs that you forgot about
(virus scanning), and also processes that you don't know about.
There are many computer savvy hams on this reflector so I'm sure
they can suggest methods of monitoring the number of processing
running on Win98 computers. I know that AdWare displays this while
it's scanning for adware.
Now, to set the low water mark in this discussion, during CQWW CW
one of our computers was a 166 MHz Win98SE laptop with CTWin
10.02.005. We had radio control and Ethernet networking enabled on
this Toshiba Tecra 740 laptop. With over 8200 QSO's in the log,
there were delays when keys were pressed to send CW but the CW was
not choppy or gapped. This laptop was used to make more than half
the QSO's in the contest.
I don't recommend using a computer this slow with CTWin but it
demonstrates what is possible.
John
k3ct@verizon.net
-----Original Message-----
From: ct-user-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:ct-user-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bob
Schreibmaier
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 9:54 AM
To: ct-user@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [ct-user] CW keying
We have a Celeron 1.7 GHz with Win98SE using LPT1
for keying. I've heard a recording of my signal
at LZ1ABC and I think the keying sounds choppy.
Beyond that, there are some occasions when what is
being sent sounds like the computer is drunk! :-)
73,
Bob
K3PH
VE3DZ wrote:
> I have same problem on PII 266 with W98SE using LPT for keying.
>
> Yuri VE3DZ
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