[RTTY] Re: [WriteLog] AUTOSAVE - SERIOUS PROBLEM FOR SERIOUS CONTESTERS!

[k7wm]

Very strange. At W5KFT last month, we had 3000+- qso's with Writelog setup
to autosave to floppy. If you weren't looking at the screen when it
autosaved, you wouldn't see it do it. Medium speed machines, (3-400mghz).
Same results at KX7LDS with 3 machines networked, fastest being a 333. We
were using a 4 hub at both locations to get away from the 50ohm resistor
problem, but don't know if that would have anything to do with it. Would
look at what else is running along with Writelog...GL and 73 de
Wayne k7wm@i10net.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "GW4BLE" <GW4BLE@btinternet.com>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 4:36 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] AUTOSAVE - SERIOUS PROBLEM FOR SERIOUS CONTESTERS!


> Hello All,
>
> Clive Whelan GW3NJW wrote :
>
> Hi
>
> Two separate users, one of whom is me, using two versions viz
> 10.36G and 10.35x have failed to disable autosave by the
> prescribed method.
>
> Surely there is a problem. Wayne?
>
> Yes indeed, as a serious competitor in last weekends' CQWW SSB Contest it
> became a *real* annoyance in the later hours of the contest!  With over
3500
> contacts in the log the Autosave booting in had the potential to s-l-o-w
the
> logging rate.
>
> Could some attention be paid to this fault please.  I am certainly
surprised
> that few others have mentioned it.  Could it be that the WL users don't
make
> that many QSOs to notice?   Prove me wrong someone, please!
>
> Steve
>
> GW4BLE
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