At Tree's suggestion, I installed SMARTDRIVE on my aging 286, because the disk was causing some large delays. That seems to have taken care of the problem. Time to log a QSO dropped from about 6 seconds to 2. I allocated 1 MB of memory to SMARTDRIVE, which is probably way more than necessary, but it wasn't doing anything else. Thanks, Tree! -- 73, Scott K9MA sdelling@facstaff.wisc.edu