[WriteLog] Save problems

[Clive Whelan]

At the weekend I experienced an annoying problem, bordering on 
the serious.

viz. After the QSO total got to about 1500, I noticed the save 
operation taking longer, and locking out the QSO entry screen 
for a significant time.


But the end as I was on 2,900 Qs ( as GW7X) the recovery of the 
QSO window was only just in time to log the next caller ( 
sending at 28 wpm using the  W5XD keyer). It is predictable that 
at some point not much over 3000Qs, this would have become very 
serious, and limited QSO rate.


Now bear in mind that I am only a pop gun using vertical 
antennas on all bands, and using a tribander I would have 
expected to gross well over 4,000 Qs. If that had happened in 
the contest I would have been mortified. 

Note also that I am only suing a 200Mhz Pentium with 32Mb of 
RAM. I do have a faster machine nearing completion/installation, 
but unfortunately this does not have the complement of ports 
that the old machine has, and I would dearly like to retain the 
old clonker, and not just for the occasions that I need to 
revert to TR ( DOS) for contests not supported by WL; perhaps as 
a networked machine in a multi/multi environment.


Is there any way that the save operation can be speeded up, 
perhaps by caching in some way?


tia


73


Clive
GW3NJW
gw3njw@gw7x.org
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