[SPAM] Re: [SECC] Computer Crash during NAQP SSB

Tue Jan 20 15:23:56 EST 2004

You are right. I have a small ups and the other computer is on it. I have
ran a new 20amp line for shack but wasn't using it.
I had the old computer on the ups. I have ran the last 2 contests on the new
computer. I was window shopping for bigger ups at lunch yesterday !!..

No excuse....

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary McConville [mailto:wb4sq at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:16 PM
To: secc at contesting.com
Subject: [SPAM] Re: [SECC] Computer Crash during NAQP SSB

Shame on you for not having a UPS.  Even my FT102s are
on 800VA ups units.

Gary - WB4SQ

--- "Macie, Gordon" <GMacie at innotrac.com> wrote:
> I have been meaning to write this up since the
> contest.. I was about 500
> qso's into NAQP and the circuit breaker in the
> basement popped. Computer
> goes dead. This has happened before with little or
> no resulting problem.
> When the computer rebooted the scandisk took an
> unusually long time to cycle
> through the drive , in fact it was at 28% so long I
> thought it was stuck. I
> was about to ctrl-alt-del when it finally went to
> 29%. I knew this time was
> different. When you haven't "saved" in writelog and
> you reboot it will
> prompt you to load qso's that it has stored in the
> queue. I have seen this
> work a few times and was expecting this. When I
> didn't get that message
> prompt I knew I was in trouble.. I had just come off
> a 30 minute break and
> didn't want to take more time off but this was worse
> than that. Not only did
> I not get that choice but I didn't even have the log
> listed in the
> selections when writelog first comes up. I had lost
> the whole log not just
> the qso's since the last save. I was going to quit
> because it didn't make
> any sense to have 500 qso's and no log. Since I had
> stopped operating I
> started searching on the hard disk and found what
> was a bck of the log and
> an adi file which was pretty small in the
> /writelog/programs directory . (I
> had done a dir *.wl /s on c:\) My files are normally
> in /writelog/contest. I
> copied these files over to the /contest directory ,
> brought up writelog. It
> prompted me to load qso's in the queue and then my
> log came up 100% in
> tack.. Wow.. what a relief. It appears this queue is
> saved in an adi file.
> The only thing I can think of is this is done for
> performance reasons. So
> when you are in writelog open an explorer session
> and go to the /programs
> directory and verify you have files with the same
> name as your log.. I
> haven't double checked it. My fat table was
> scrambled. I am actually leaving
> out a couple of details to save confusion.
> 
> Gordon N4LR
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ku8e at bellsouth.net [mailto:ku8e at bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:53 PM
> To: secc at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [SECC] NAQP SSB KN6RO Single Op LP
> 
> 
>  I have some recent experience with this happening
> to me too....  Murphy
> stikes again !!  The computer age has put a new
> variable in the whole
> contest equation....
>                        73.  Jeff
> 
> 
> > 
> > From: "Roger Hackler" <rhackler at mindspring.com>
> > Date: 2004/01/20 Tue PM 02:09:36 EST
> > To: <secc at contesting.com>
> > Subject: [SECC] NAQP SSB KN6RO Single Op LP
> > 
> >                     North American QSO Party, SSB
> > 
> > Call: KN6RO
> > Operator(s): KN6RO
> > Station: KN6RO
> > 
> > Class: Single Op LP
> > QTH: Marietta, GA
> > Operating Time (hrs): 5
> > 
> > Summary:
> >  Band  QSOs  Mults
> > -------------------
> >   160:    1     1
> >    80:   36    18
> >    40:   69    33
> >    20:   57    25
> >    15:   29    14
> >    10:   34    11
> > -------------------
> > Total:  226   102  Total Score = 23,052
> > 
> > Club: South East Contest Club
> > 
> > Team: SECC #1
> > 
> > Comments:
> > 
> > If it could go wrong, it did.  Murphey was alive
> and well!  Everything
> works
> > fine until the contest starts, and then, BAM!  Too
> depressing to go into,
> > but
> > hey, there's always next time.  Full time turned
> into part time at best!
> > 
> > Thanks for the Q's.  Worked quite a few SECC
> folks, and loved November 8
> > Butt
> > Ugly, ANAL in MI!
> > 
> > Wound up doing the entire contest on a folded
> Dipole at 50 feet.
> > 
> > 73
> > 
> > Roger
> > 
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