This is a MMTTY problem that a lot of have experience.
I get it using MMTTY standalone and also with WRITELOG.
I can make it do it by sending a number of CQ buffers.
It doesn't matter what buffer, just that you make a lot of sequential
transmissions.
After 10 or so it stalls.
But it is erratic.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Stafford" <pete@staffordsystems.com>
To: "'Nick Lekic'" <ve3ey@rac.ca>; <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 8:01 PM
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Writelog and mmtty hangs
> Same problem here: also using Win 2000, WL 10.35, and same MMTTY in FSK.
>
> Pete, K2PS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Lekic [mailto:ve3ey@rac.ca]
> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 2:35 AM
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] Writelog and mmtty hangs
>
>
> Hi everyone.
>
> We are having some problems with Writelog/MMTTY in WW/RJ contest this
> weekend.
>
> Our setup is:
> Dell Latitude CPI laptop PII 266Mhz with 192 Mb or RAM
> Win 2000
> Writelog 10.35
> MMTTY 1.62 plug-in in FSK mode
> ft1000mp + Rigblaster Plus
>
>
> Occasionally , when we try to transmit with Writelog, mmtty would just
> key the transmitter and produce continuos tone for several seconds
> before it transmits the actual message. Sometimes it happens several
> times in a row and sometimes it works for hours without trouble. First
> I thought it is RF related problem but it seems that the MMTTY itself is
> acting up.
>
> I was watching Windows task manager while working in the contest.
> Normally, MMTTY would on average use about 10 % of CPU time.
> Intermittently, when I hit the F key (doesn't matter which one), mmtty
> would key the radio, freeze for few seconds and hog the entire CPU time
> 100 %. Only mmtty.exe process does this. All other processes appear
> to be OK in the task manager. Once mmtty comes back to life, everything
> seems normal.
>
> This is not that much of an issue when calling CQ but in S&P mode, when
> new mult comes back to you through the pileup and you send him continuos
> carrier back instead of RST, this is when thing turn bad.
>
> 73, Nick
> ve3ey
>
> VE3NE M/S team in WW/RJ contest.
>
>
>
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