> I was bothered by a delay in moving from the call window to the exchange =
> window in either CQ or S&P mode this weekend. After entering the =
> callsign in the call window and hitting enter, the cursor would delay =
> for about the same amount of time it takes for the returning station to =
> give the introductory exchange phrase "N7RX, please copy my number". It =
> was more troublesome in S&P mode than CQ mode, since I could hit enter =
> while giving the calling station my information in CQ mode and I'd have =
> the exchange window by the time was done. In S&P mode, I had sometimes =
> had to write to my brain buffer until I got control of the exchange =
> window.=20
>
> I never noticed this before. I did switch to a new computer (Thinkpad =
> 600E) for SS and ran TR in MS-DOS re-boot mode because TR would not work =
> as a Win95 DOS window (but that's another story). I'm not writing to a =
> floppy or using TR to control a contest card. I did have it set up to =
> key the xmtr for CW SS for the first time and the only thing I can think =
> of is that I altered by config file in a way I'd never done before when =
> I set-up for parallel port keying. Otherwise, I'm using only the plain =
> vanilla logging features - no packet, no multiple radios, no radio =
> control or etc.
>
> Is this delay normal? Can anybody think of why its happening and what I =
> can do to stop it? Oh yeah, its v. 6.45.=20
Are you using SMARTDRV or some other disk cache?
You might be running into some power saving feature on the disk
drive that needs to be turned off also. It is not normal to have
this delay.
Tree
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