[WriteLog] something glitched...

[Mike Mellinger WA0SXV]

Sounds mildly familiar.  All day Saturday Writelog would correctly report
frequency for 15-30 minutes and then simply stop receiving information from
the radio.  I know that the radio was reporting frequency because the PW-1
amplifier uses the same information and it was tracking perfectly.
Restarting the port didn't fix it.  Restarting the software would fix it for
15-30 minutes.  Finally rebooted the PC.  That fixed it -- for 15-30
minutes.  Was going to write it off to RF problems until I realized that it
worked all day Sunday on the same bands.  I have NO clue what was going on.

I did try having Writelog command the rig to a particular frequency.  That
was REALLY interesting.  The radio would not change frequency but it would
go to CW.  Go figure.

So there may be a little bug hiding in Writelog write rig communications.

Mike

for the record:

Writelog 10.28C
Icom 756PRO on standard serial port
NT 2000 SP2, dual 933 mhz pentium 3 xeon
W5XD+ keyer/station control
Same effect whether SO2R or not.


----- Original Message -----
From: "K6RB" <k6rb@baymoon.com>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 13:23
Subject: [WriteLog] something glitched...


> I used WriteLog in the ARRL SS Phone contest this weekend and it worked
> flawlessly ... until the final hour. Then, something glitched and it
> wouldn't let me enter info. I saved the file and rebooted the computer.
> Everything looked okay when it came back up, and it let me enter info, as
> before. However, each of the last 36 QSOs that I logged had a sequence
> number that looked like this  "1308B". The "B" was in red. And I noticed
> that it was no longer incrementing either the band total or the score
total.
> I finished the contest, saved everything and  found that the Cabrillo log
> file had all the information. The only thing wrong (of course) was the
> claimed score, which I manually edited. I'd like to go back into the log
and
> have those last 36 QSOs calculated into the score and the band total. I
> realized that when I first rebooted, the log had defaulted to the 1800 KHz
> band and I didn't notice that. So, I edited the first post-glitch QSO and
> changed the frequency to 21000 KHz, and did the same for the log, itself.
I
> thought that licked the problem...but it didn't. The subsequent 35 QSOs
> still continued to carry that ominous red "B" and were not counted. Can
> anyone clue me in on what I need to do to rectify the situation? I will
file
> the Cabrillo log with the ARRL, with the edited claimed score, so that's
no
> problem, but I'd like to know what happened and how to correct it in the
> future. Thanks in advance.
>
> Rob K6RB
>
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