[Trlog] On deck call results

[Fred Helmstetter]

I ran 6.85 for my first 300 or so qso's and the bandmap / 2nd radio / packet
stuff seemed to work perfectly.  Unfortunately, I had another issue that
nobody else has mentioned yet.  I started seeing a significant delay when
logging a qso.  At first it seemed normal but after a couple of hundred q's
it was a show stopper. I estimate it was around an 800msec delay when I
swapped in 679 to finish up and seemed to get longer as the log size grew.
It would send the TU message and then hang there with the last guy's call in
the window. For a while I could just type the next caller (without the
display changing) and it would let loose with CW after the pause but the
time delay made it just about impossible to run.  Of course, 679 was as
responsive as ever... 

Running a P100 boat anchor as my DOS/logging machine so maybe it's a
"resource" issue...  New radio code eating up more of my limited CPU time?
Maybe just my usual luck. 

73,
Fred, N9FH



-----Original Message-----
From: trlog-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:trlog-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Tree
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 11:45 AM
To: K4RO Kirk Pickering
Cc: trlog at contesting.com; w4pa at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Trlog] On deck call results

> > I also noticed that if I started to load second radio call,
> > then backed out with ESC, there'd be gibberish in the on
> > deck call window.  (No consequence, but a little odd.)
> 
> I noticed this too. It also placed gibberish in the band map.

Yup - this was seen by W0YK before the contest, but I didn't consider
it to be a huge problem needing fixing.  And if you hit RETURN with an
empty window to the Alt-D, it will use the call you checked last I 
think.

> I didn't have a single NONCW problem, and the radio interface
> was really great. SWAPRADIOS worked very well, and FAST.

This is REALLY great news.  The biggest difference between 6.8x and
6.7x is the TOTALLY REWRITTEN radio interface.  I still have some 
issues to fix with some of the radios (mostly those that have 56K
baud rates).  I might need to borrow one to get to the bottom of 
this problem (maybe I can get W4PA to send me an Orion for a month).

Tree
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