Well, goodbye at least to Writelog with the MMTTY engine.
Some of you may remember that a year ago I purchased Writelog after =
hearing that the MMTTY engine worked with it. After following AA5AU's =
instructions, it worked perfectly in the 2001 CQWW RTTY test until I =
closed the program at sleep time. The next day all I got was a stuck =
"initializing MMTTY" message and Writelog and MMTTY never worked again. =
I tried a ZILLION things including uninstalling and re-installing, all =
to no avail. Several on the Writelog reflector tried to help and one =
other person had the exact same problem.
After weeks of trying to find a fix, I gave up. The experience kinda =
spoiled my appetite for for RTTY tests, I really liked Writelog and was =
hooked on MMTTY. I did not have the enthusiasm required to switch back =
to my PK232.
Well, a couple of months ago I had cause to re-format my hardrive. Low =
and behold after I installed everything Writelog and the MMTTY engine =
worked !!!! So, this weekend I was all set to actually use it in a =
contest for the first time. I again used AA5AU's advice (very, very =
helpful) and was eagerly awaiting 0000 UTC for the start of the test. =
All systems were go and MMTTY purred away on a few test contacts. As =
the contest started my PC froze...uh-oh, time to re-boot Writelog an =
MMTTY. Would you believe it, exact same thing as last year occurred, =
the "initializing MMTTY" stayed there and no matter what I did , it =
would not work.
After a couple of hours I switched to another logging programs that uses =
MMTTY and it worked well for the entire contest.
I really like Writelog but there is something about it, when combined =
with MMTTY, that my PC does not like. So, its goodbye Writelog with =
MMTTY. I did at least give it a good try.
Andy KB2EOQ
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