-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Worsham
>Sent: Aug 13, 2017 11:30 PM
>To: FourLanders Contest Team , Bob Lear
>Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] contest computer update
>
>Thanks to Bob for the update. Thanks to both Ron and Bob for all the time
>they have put into procuring these new PCs, getting them up and running and
>testing at Bobs place. Unfortunately a lot of flakiness has been found
>running WL12 with Windows 7 but we will just have to deal with it until we
>get it worked out.
>
>73
>Jim, W4KXY
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Lear
>Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2017 5:24 PM
>To: FourLanders Contest Team
>Subject: [Fourlanders] contest computer update
>
>Well, finally they all seem to be working. Biggest problem is that we
>really don't know why we had problems or exactly what we did to get them
>fixed other than just time and magic. We have found some idiosyncrasies
>with Writelog running under Windows 7 and I'm planning to send info to
>the WL guys about those. And we've found some things to NOT do when WL
>is up and running. We will warn about those at the contest, but they
>shouldn't affect our operation.
>
>Right now all three stations with the new contest computers here, 6m, 2m
>and 222, are set up, running WriteLog, calling with voice recordings, CW
>messages, Live PTT audio and networked to the server. I also connected
>my new PC (which was ordered along with the contest ones) to one of my
>radios on 432 and to the network, so basically everything is set up
>just like it will be for the contest, except for the spoofed 432
>station. I plan to leave it all on, test calling with recorded messages
>and live audio periodically for the next couple of days, thunderstorms
>cooperating. Ron will bring his 432 station (or the 432 computer) later
>for testing with the system but no problems are expected now.
>
>The network is running on my new NetGear switch and the house router.
>We've set the house router to the same address as the cradlepoint router
>we use in Great White. We also tested the original and the backup
>cradlepoint that Ryan KK4OSG donated to us. All working fine. I have
>eliminated the daisy-chained routers that I had been using for the past
>6 years. Bill helped with some of the networking problems. The house
>router is now responsible for the coded addresses and DHCP and we
>shouldn't have to change settings on the computers or the routers
>anymore when we operate here or on the mountian.
>
>In case someone has useful experience with WL12 and Win7 to share, one
>of the things we've found is that apparently if a 'Save Configuration'
>under the Ports menu is done, things get flaky. Our workaround is to do
>the setup needed, 'save configuration', save the WL file, get out of WL
>and restart it. Then things tend to work smoothly although there are
>unexplainable instances of live audio just stop working. There we found
>that if we 'change operator' to another op, call with that recorded
>message, then 'change operator' back to the original, then it works
>again. No explanation for that behaviour but I will inform the WL
>programmer. I have found that it is necessary to do a 'save
>configuration' to keep the radio setup and other items we enter in SetUp
>in [Ports]
>
>I think my SoundBlaster MP3 has a problem. I've substituted Ron's
>spare and now have all three of these stations running with identical
>setups using the MP3 . Still to test mine to see if it really has a
>problem or it's some of the random weird behavior we've been seeing in
>WL and the audio setups. I also swapped headphones, mics, Heil
>adaptors, audio cables and other stuff trying to find problems.
>
>That should be about it for the computer and software update.
>
>Ron and I have spent considerable time on all this, beside his work
>putting all the software on and commissioning the new computers. I'm
>surprised that we haven't worn them out from the number of restarts
>we've had to do!!!
>
>73, Bob
>
>
>
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