Hi,
I noticed the same. Especially if you had copied only part of the call, lets
say 2KW of my OH2KW, and
WL was sending out 2KW 599 00x, there was a long gap after 2KW and 599. The
gap was unnoticable,
if the call was long like OH2KW. The long GAP caused that many stations started
to answer as the call was just a part copy.
My laptop was 266MHz DELL Latitude. The gap was quite a long even if the log
was small. tried to turn off all
possible things that I had turned on (beamhedings, check partial), no help.
73 de Arto OH2KW (in WPX XX9TKW)
----- Original Message -----
From: Dick Green <dick.green@valley.net>
To: WriteLog <Writelog@contesting.com>
Cc: Wayne Wright W5XD <w5xd@alum.mit.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 7:56 AM
Subject: [WriteLog] Slow Aurtomatic Save
>
> I thought I should report that AutoSave slows down pretty severely when the
> log gets big on a machine with a relatively slow hard drive. In WPX, I was
> using a four-year old Toshiba 100MHz Pentium notebook. The hard drive is
> pretty slow on this machine compared to state-of-the-art notebooks. Reponse
> using WL was excellent in all respects except when the log got over about
> 2000 QSOs and would get flushed to disk. It turned out that the delay
> sending "TU WC1M" with the W5XD+ outboard keyer was just enough for the log
> to get saved withiout interfering with operating, but I could see that once
> I got over about 2500 QSOs the delay would be too long. Luckily (sort of),
> the contest ended for me just short of that. I tried my 3K QSO log from
> ARRLDX on that machine and the AutoSave was too slow to be practical.
>
> The only solution I can see to this is to turn off AutoSave, but that makes
> me nervous -- especially with a large log in memory. I suppose the delay is
> primarily caused by flushing the entire log to disk. Any chance record I/O
> could be implemented so that only the changes would have to be written?
>
> 73, Dick WC1M
>
>
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