Thanks Joe. I figured it out. It broke on my last beta update. I'll get with
Wayne. Probably something I needed to do and didn't read the instructions.
73, Don AA5AU
-----Original Message-----
From: WriteLog [mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Joe
Subich, W4TV
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2020 8:25 AM
To: writelog@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] WriteLog issues after Windows 10 2004 update
Don,
> My RTL-SDR is no longer showing signals on the bandmap.
Try reinstalling any drivers for the RTL device. This smells like a
failure of the [wideband] audio between the device and SDR software.
Windows Updates are notorious for munging non-Microsoft hardware USB
drivers.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 2020-07-18 8:59 AM, Don Hill AA5AU wrote:
> I've found another issue but I'm not sure it's related to the Windows 10
> update. My RTL-SDR is no longer showing signals on the bandmap. The SDR
> appears to be working as it shows on the bandmap but there are no signals.
I
> went through the SDR setup again in WriteLog but it does not show any
> signals. It does not appear that any settings have changed. It worked in
> IARU.
>
> Not sure how to troubleshoot it other than check the cabling between the
IF
> output of the TS-870 and the input to the SDR which appears fine. The SDR
is
> acting as if it's not getting a signal.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Don AA5AU
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WriteLog [mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Don
> Hill AA5AU
> Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2020 7:34 AM
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] WriteLog issues after Windows 10 2004 update
>
> I just completed a massive Windows 10 update this morning on both my
Windows
> 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro machines and immediately had issues within
> WriteLog but they were easily corrected.
>
>
>
> When I tried to run WriteLog on the Home machine, I got a WriteLog Sound
> Error "WriteLog Sound Initialization Error Audio thread exception:
GetDevice
> failed". After clicking OK a couple of times, WriteLog opened. The two
> issues I noticed were that MMTTY had the wrong sound card selected in
> settings and that the bandmap was showing only a gray window (this is a
> known issue after a Windows 10 update). I closed WriteLog. I then ran the
> WriteLog > Sound board mixer control program and it showed "Device
missing"
> for the sound board. I selected the appropriate sound board and when I
> restarted WriteLog, all was well again except the bandmap. To fix the
> bandmap, I closed WriteLog reinstalled the last WriteLog update I had.
>
>
>
> On the Pro machine, I didn't have a Sound error (maybe because there is
only
> one sound card in this PC) but I did have the bandmap issue. Reinstalling
> the latest update fixed that issue.
>
>
>
> All is well.
>
>
>
> This Windows 10 2004 update took a couple of hours to complete. I started
it
> last night, waiting an hour and it was not complete on either machine so
> went to bed. This morning both machines were asking for a restart and
after
> a restart, it took another hour to complete.
>
>
>
> I would not update Windows just before the NAQP RTTY contest today. You
may
> miss the start!
>
>
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
>
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