[RTTY] Decoding troubles after taking a break

[Jeff Stai]

Call me superstitious, but once I have everything playing well together
before the start of a contest, I don't shut anything down until after the
end (except maybe the monitors, by switching them off), and until I know
the log is done and saved and backed up. Only then do I exit loggers, shut
down, etc.

I also have a detailed startup checklist including checkpoints like "make
sure the right sound card is selected". Checklists help.

73 jeff wk6i


On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Mike Ricketts <mike.nd9g at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps someone here has some insight as to what was happening with my
> decoding last night.
>
> For the duration of the contest, I was running N1MM+ with MMTTY as the
> engine, using an additional 2 decoding windows of 2Tone, and also had the
> decoder going on my IC7300.
>
> During the beginning (8 hours or so) of the contest everything was working
> great.
>
> I needed to take a break for dinner, so shut everything down for an hour.
> When I came back and started everything up again, all 3 of the decoders on
> my PC had trouble decoding anything. They would get some decoded, then just
> stop decoding. Then they would start back to decoding again. This happened
> on pretty much every QSO after the break.
>
> The decoder on the radio was doing fine, so I ended up using that for most
> of the rest of the contest. So I know the signals were ok.
>
> I thought maybe there was some errant process sucking up resources, but I
> watched the performance monitor in task manager for a while, and noticed
> nothing out of the ordinary. The only process with any significant resource
> usage was MMTTY, and total CPU usage was 25% or less, which is normal for
> me when running MMTTY. There were no scans, or anything like that, running.
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas you may have on the cause.
>
> 73,
> Mike ND9G
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