[RTTY] Proliferation of DX RTTY Activity

[John W. Tipka]

Hi John,

On this computer, the Win2K, when MMTTY icon on desktop is clicked a button 
is placed on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, but the program 
doesn't open, apparently going through some initialization process which 
lasts for 16 to 20 secs.. Clicking the button on the taskbar does nothing 
to aid in the opening of MMTTY. It just sits there and churns....Finally, 
it opens after the time stated above and you're there..

Shutting down is almost the reverse - doing an exit by the File menu or the 
X in upper right corner will cause the software to sit there and churn, 
freezing the displays, and then finally disappears and the button will 
leave the taskbar after 16-18 seconds..

Another observation...I can't switch profiles in midstream, e.g. Standard 
or Fluttered IIR, PLL, FIR in MMTTY when using Win2K..Waterfall, spectrum, 
X-Y and receive window freeze...I have to reboot the MMTTY software 
.....This was a problem for me during the WPX contest....

What's running besides Ver1.62 :
Dimension 4 - SNTP clock software to Naval Observatory-
XMLog - logging program
e-mail modem software
PK Term99
Internet Explorer in background

Windows Task Manager - Performance shows 3833 handles, 242 threads, 25 
processes
CPU usage 8% idling - however start up of MMTTY --->100% CPU usage for 
three full blocks horizontally of the CPU usage graph............
Memory usage 84584 K -straight line

Similar results on shutdown - CPU usage 100% for two plus horizontal blocks 
of CPU usage graph until usage drops to 8 %.. about 15-17 secs elapsed time 
before window and button disappear from the desktop....

Was running the computer naked... Since WPX have now dedicated a Pentium 
200MMX w/Win95 to RTTY rather than this PIII and Win2K.. I have no problems 
with Win95 and Writelog likes it too... I'm satisfied so far... but we'll 
see what happens during NCJ Sprint and BARTG Spring....

Did a test on the 200 MMX and shutdown the logging and packet programs now 
have 2 secs up and instantaneous down with the software... So my mileage 
does have some variance...

I don't know what the answer is!!!

73,

John W8UL

At 11:09 2/27/2002 -0500, you wrote:

> > An operating observation here: Writelog 10.30 plus MMTTY plug in works
> > better with Win95 than with Win2000Prof here.. Long initialization and
> > shutdown times with Win2K (about 18 seconds) in both stand alone MMTTY and
> > also the plugin for Writelog.
> >
> > Win95 computer has 128Meg RAM, 4.3Gig HD, and Pentium 200MMX with PCI128
> > soundcard - about 4 secs up and 3 secs down...
> >
> > W2K computer 750Meg Pentium III w/256meg RAM, 90Gig HD and PCI128
> > soundcard... (18 secs up, 20 secs down)
>
>Something's amiss because my WIN2L prof starts and stops MMTTY standalone or
>plugin in 2 sec or less.  Dell 1.3G with 256K...  ??  Thus I don't think
>it's the WIN2k at the root of the longer times.  73