[RTTY] Decoding troubles after taking a break

[Mark Schoonover]

I agree with Jeff. Once everything is tested & confirmed working I don't
shut anything down until the log is uploaded.

On Jul 16, 2017 9:04 AM, "Jeff Stai" <wk6i.jeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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