[WriteLog] Post-contest comments

[Barry N1EU]

I've been running WL10.28D this weekend and just wanted to report the 
following (P266 192MB W98):

1.  Soundcard keying just quit on me suddenly about 6 times while doing 
nothing but running stations and entering qso's.  All of a sudden the F keys 
would just give a click without transmitting audio.  Had to exit WriteLog 
and restart it and go through a cycle of WriteLog not starting properly, 
ending 2 WL tasks, and restarting successfully.  Soundcard functionality 
then restored (for a while).  Does anybody else experience this?  (BTW, I'm 
also running DXTelnet)

2.  Speaking of which, because it's not all that unusual to have to exit and 
restart WriteLog it would sure be nice to have the option of 
saving/restoring Packet spots, which are currently lost as soon as you exit 
the program.  Trying to refill the packet spot window with the 30 minutes of 
good spot collecting that you just lost is otherwise impossible, sh/dx not 
withstanding.  This option would obviously only be used with immediate 
restarting (due to program glitch), and not if you went QRT for any length 
of time.  I can't overstate the need for this in light of the fact that the 
soundcard functionality gets lost intermittently.

3.  Seems like a no brainer, but why aren't country and zone mults (color) 
coded differently in the bandmap and packet spot window, with double mults 
obviously marked?  If nothing else, it would be nice to see double mults 
stand out.


Hope everyone had fun this weekend!

73,
Barry  N1EU





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