Below is an edited version of the message I sent to Ken.
Take care
73/Bob
W4MYA
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 2:38 PM
Subject: [ct-user] CT9.67
> Greetings Ken,
>
> Ran into a weird problem while updating the station computers.
> Only tried on 3 positions so far. 2 stations on 20M and the packet
computer
> So far it only affects TS940.
>
> Setup:
>
> CT967
> Station 1 FT1000MP Set up as station 3 Com 1
> Station 2 TS940 Set up as station 13 Com 1
> Station 9 Just hooks packet into the network Com 1
> Setup is for CQWW MM
> Hit Alt -G and gab between all 3 computers works fine
> Move the tuning dial on the TS940 and the CW window showing
> speed logging/keyboard comes up.
> Turn on SOUND and hit F1 and sure enuff CQ comes out the speaker.
> Try to log a contact on the second 20M station and the error message
> "Bad mode from remote input = 1" comes up on the other 2 computers.
> Contact logs on the second station, but not on the other 2 computers.
> Contact logged on the main 20M station shows up on all 3 computers.
>
> Remove TS940 as Radio01 on second station and all OK
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Robbins" <k1ttt@arrl.net>
To: "reflector ct-user" <ct-user@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: [ct-user] 9.67 network bug
> this may be related to the mode change bug i also noticed. on the
ft-1000mp,
> ts-870, and ts-940 if i put the radio in cw when the contest is ssb ct
seems to
> accept the mode change and starts logging 599 (very weird, on the NEXT
qso) and
> giving other computers 'bad mode from remote input=1' errors. often when
this
> happens the unentered qso on the other machines dissappears... but not
always,
> and not on all machines. this does not seem to happen with the ft-1000.
when
> switching back to ssb the next qso goes out with a 599 report, but logs on
other
> machines as the correct mode, then the report updates to the proper 59 for
> following qso's.
>
> i was also able to get one ft-1000mp station confused when grabbing spots
and
> even though the contest was set for ssb it started putting the radio in cw
mode,
> thus causing the dissappearing qso's on other machines. it would seem
that for
> single mode contests ct is not restricting mode changes any more and in
some
> cases is getting confused in logging.
>
> there also seems to be differences with the error message on different
machines,
> some of them seem to stay there till f11 clears the line, on others its
only a
> flash and gone.
>
> another weird thing noticed while playing with this is that passes show up
with
> the wrong band name. a pass from 10m (station 2) shows up as 'pass from
80'
> which is station 1. a pass from 80m (station 1) shows up as 'pass from
all'.
> it seems that in the pass message the station number is misinterpretted
when
> looking up the name.
>
> David Robbins wrote:
> >
> > i haven't figured out the exact sequence yet, but within 100 qso's on
only 3
> > machines i was able to get the bug to repeat that causes what you have
typed in
> > but haven't logged yet to dissappear. hasn't anyone else seen this one
yet??
> > it existed in 9.64 and caused me to regress back to a known stable 9.27
in cqww
> > ssb, i don't want to end up having to do the same in cw.
> >
>
> --
> David Robbins K1TTT
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