[TRLog] Sorry CW On My Laptop

[Guy Olinger, K2AV]

The use of Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP is problematic for
TR, because the operating system will interrupt tasks (TRLog is just
one of many tasks running) for system functions and other tasks. For
CW, the complaint is "choppy" or erratic CW, among others.

Windows ME does not use the same core as the NT derived Windows
systems.

The basic workarounds within the OS are to kill everything not needed
for TR. That is sometimes just not practical.

The other thing to do is to create a maintenance boot disk from ME
(which will not help if your TR files on XP are in NTFS), and boot
from it.

Best approach, use the desktop this time.

I use Win 98SE and modify MS-DOS.SYS to have the bootup stop at the
command prompt. That gives me access to the FAT32 files.

Since I have a SETI-farm of a dozen boxes running, having one of them
setup just for SETI and TRLog is no loss. When that box is running
Windows, it is a network drive on this box which allows me to run
POST, send contest/log email, etc.

Good luck in the SS.

73, Guy.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Spikes" <jspikes@knology.net>
To: <trlog@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 11:12 PM
Subject: [TRLog] Sorry CW On My Laptop


Hello. When running TR 670 on my laptop (Windows XP) the CW is just
not acceptable. Whether I'm keying the radio or not, the characters
are not nice and distinct. Its hard to describe, they just sound
erratic and too closely spaced, anything over about 25 WPM is pretty
hard to copy. I've played with the weighting and it doesn't help. The
same version works great on my desktop machine running Windows ME.

Anyone have any suggestions for a fix before SS tomorrrow?

Jim, N4KH




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