[RTTY] Decoding troubles after taking a break

[Ken K6MR]

For your Win 10 update problem: go to Settings -> Update & security ->Advanced options, and turn on “Pause Updates”.  This will stop any updates from happening once you have everything set up. Just be sure to turn it off again after the contest.  Max 7 day pause so you need to check things out just before the weekend and then freeze it.

And yes, many updates will fiddle with the sound card and serial port settings. They are getting better, but seems my 3 USB sound devices always get renamed and re-ordered.  Serial ports are better, but every so often it decides to renumber them. And with 20 or so active it gets messy.

Ken K6MR

From: Courtney Judd<mailto:k4wi at k4wi.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 16:13
To: Mark Schoonover<mailto:mark at ka6wke.net>; RTTY Reflector<mailto:rtty at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Decoding troubles after taking a break

well I didn't have fun in this contest at all.... decoding problems for
sure.... never did get it sorted out.... running WL 11.08 mmtty and
gritty thru microkeyer2. My gut feeling that this problem comes about
every time Win 10 does an update (happened last Wednesday) and the
settings for the sound card and the router get re-set to something else
and I don't see this until the contest is under way. Yes, I did try it
before time but it appeared to be normal. Only made 30 contacts total...
very frustrating. Surely there must be a better way that could keep
win10 out of the equation.  I did try 2-tone.... operating window opened
up but no window to print so gave up on it.... getting to old to have
these aggravations! lol, Cort K4WI

> Mark Schoonover <mailto:mark at ka6wke.net>
> Sunday, July 16, 2017 12:34 PM
> I agree with Jeff. Once everything is tested & confirmed working I don't
> shut anything down until the log is uploaded.
>
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