My apologies to Don, AA5AU and the Reflector, I was attempting to snip out
part of this post and accidently sent it. Please ignore this one and read
Don's original posting. Sorry Don.
Don W6FFH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Eriksen" <don.wsixffh@verizon.net>
To: "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au@bellsouth.net>; "RTTY Reflector"
<rtty@contesting.com>; "WriteLog Reflector" <Writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] MMTTY 1.63b test results in the XE RTTY contest
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au@bellsouth.net>
> To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty@contesting.com>; "WriteLog Reflector"
> <Writelog@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 6:36 PM
> Subject: [WriteLog] MMTTY 1.63b test results in the XE RTTY contest
>
>
> > I ran the MMTTY 1.63b engine with WriteLog in this weekend's XE RTTY
> > contest. I ran it on both my A and B computers in my SO2R two PC setup.
> >
> > Computer A is a 200 mhz Pentium I running Win98se. Computer B is a 333
> mhz
> > Pentium II also running 98se. Both computers were running WriteLog
> v10.39c with
> > the MMTTY plug-in for WriteLog V13.exe.
> >
> > Computer A was keying FSK from an add-on COM port and B was keying FSK
> > from a Belkin USB-to-serial adapter.
> >
> > The problem experienced in the ARRL RTTY Roundup by several WriteLog
> > users running the MMTTY plug-in for WriteLog and the 1.63 engine was
that
> > on occasion when an F key was pressed to send a message, the transmitter
> would
> > key briefly, then unkey. The only way to get it going again was to
wait.
> Eventually,
> > after a minute or two, the buffer keys would work again.
> >
> > I'm sorry to say that 1.63b does the same thing. Although it doesn't
> happen often,
> > it does happen. On computer A, it happened twice. Nothing I did, short
> of closing
> > WriteLog (which I didn't do) would make it work again. It happened once
> on computer B.
> > When it occurred on computer B, I shut down the Rttyrite window running
> MMTTY
> > and restarted it, but the problem remained. I found this very strange.
> After about a
> > minute or so, it started working again.
> >
> > On one of the two occasions the problem occurred on computer A, I was
> > in Auto-CQ. So it wasn't a direct result of pressing an F key. I'd not
> experienced
> > that before.
> >
> >
> > I decided to revert back to the 1.62 engine on computer B about 6 hours
> into the contest.
> > There were no problems at all after I went back to 1.62 on computer B.
> Coincidentally,
> > there were no other problems on computer A running 1.63b either, but the
> action was pretty
> > slow by then, especially on Sunday when condx went from mediocre to just
> plain bad and I
> > finally had to quit after 500 Q's.
> >
> > I tried all kinds of different things with the MMTTY settings after each
> problem or crash.
> > At one time, I changed the priority on computer B to "higher" instead of
> "highest" in the
> > MMTTY setup. When I did this, it crashed almost immediately so I went
> back to "highest".
> > Since the F key problem only occurred a total of 3 times, it was hard to
> determine if there
> > was anything that could be done about it with settings. But I don't
think
> so.
> >
> > It's a strange problem. I sent my results to Ken, VE5KC, who will relay
> them to Mako.
> >
> > I realize that the problems are minor and correctable after a couple of
> minutes. I never had
> > to reboot the machines, which is a good thing. However, it's a little
> unnerving when it does
> > happen. In a serious contest effort, having this sort of thing occur
> could possibly throw
> > someone's rhythm off for a while. And for that reason, I am reverting
> back to v1.62 on both
> > PC's for this weekend's WPX RTTY contest. See you then!
> >
> > 73, Don AA5AU
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.aa5au.com
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> >
> >
> >
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