[WriteLog] 10 minutes window bug

[Matt Burke]

While operating at a M/S station this weekend, we also noticed this problem
with the 10 minute rule timer.  We had trouble with machines getting run and
mult stations times mixed up even with them selected properly in the Radio
drop down menu.  The run station would log a contact, and the timer for a
the mult station would begin to count down on other machines.  Further,
there were times when it would begin to re-countdown after a 10 minute
period was done....sometimes counting down from 2:30....other times counting
down from :30 even though no band changing had occurred.  One other thing,
if a mult station did not log a contact for a really long time....more than
30 minutes....and then logged another contact on the same band, it would
countdown from 10:00 even though there was no band change.

We basically had to turn it off as it was causing too much confusion.

73,

Matt Burke - N5KR

-----Original Message-----
From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
[mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Luca IK2NCJ
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 2:34 AM
To: writelog@contesting.com
Subject: [WriteLog] 10 minutes window bug


Hi folks,

I've been using last version of WL during CQWW SSB but the story looks
always the same.

10 min rule is already very painfull for MS entry specially if you use
multiple seeking station and each one must wait for own 10 minutes shift, so
it is very bad if you can't manage it properly by logging program.

Main bug looks to be that WL doesn't recognize properly which band is
running pile-up even if you set runner window or mult window in each PC on
the net. Very often it marks under the multiplier sign that you are entering
a not-Mult QSO from the multiplier station and the countdown clock starts
from 12 minute even! But QSO's are coming from the runner! The multiplier
light marks wrong probably because it works dipending on the runner light
that most of the time is green.

I have no clear idea how the log works for checking when it's time to move
from one band to another (doesn't matter if the runner or the multiplier)
but it' is very clear that the system makes a bit of confusion. I hope it
depends on a wrong setting from the user, because it is very simple to fix
it!

Anyone else suffering the same problem??

73's

Luca IK2NCJ


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