[WriteLog] Writelog and mmtty hangs

[WA9ALS - John]

MAYBE this will shed a tiny bit more light?  I have that problem on one
machine, but not another.  I have the problem with the newer WIN2000
machine, but I don't have it with the older WIN98 machine.  And I don't have
it nearly so often as Bill does.  It's fairly rare here - For the 48 hr
contest, I would say it only happened "occasionally".  It would sure bug me
if it happend every 10 times.  Sounds like it's machine and/or
OS -dependent, so it will surely be difficult to track down.  73 - John

----- Original Message -----
From: "FireBrick" <w9ol@billnjudy.com>
To: "Pete Stafford" <pete@staffordsystems.com>; "'Nick Lekic'"
<ve3ey@rac.ca>; <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Writelog and mmtty hangs


>
> This is a MMTTY problem that a lot of have experience.
> I get it using MMTTY standalone and also with WRITELOG.
>
> I can make it do it by sending a number of CQ buffers.
> It doesn't matter what buffer, just that you make a lot of sequential
> transmissions.
>
> After 10 or so it stalls.
> But it is erratic.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pete Stafford" <pete@staffordsystems.com>
> To: "'Nick Lekic'" <ve3ey@rac.ca>; <writelog@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 8:01 PM
> Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Writelog and mmtty hangs
>
>
> > Same problem here: also using Win 2000, WL 10.35, and same MMTTY in FSK.
> >
> > Pete, K2PS
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nick Lekic [mailto:ve3ey@rac.ca]
> > Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 2:35 AM
> > To: writelog@contesting.com
> > Subject: [WriteLog] Writelog and mmtty hangs
> >
> >
> > Hi everyone.
> >
> > We are having some problems with Writelog/MMTTY in WW/RJ contest this
> > weekend.
> >
> > Our setup is:
> > Dell Latitude CPI laptop PII 266Mhz with 192 Mb or RAM
> > Win 2000
> > Writelog 10.35
> > MMTTY 1.62 plug-in in FSK mode
> > ft1000mp + Rigblaster Plus
> >
> >
> > Occasionally , when we try to transmit with Writelog, mmtty would just
> > key the transmitter and produce continuos tone for several seconds
> > before it transmits the actual message.  Sometimes it happens several
> > times in a row  and sometimes it works for hours without trouble.  First
> > I thought it is RF related problem but it seems that the MMTTY itself is
> > acting up.
> >
> > I was watching Windows task manager while working in the contest.
> > Normally, MMTTY would on average use about 10 % of CPU time.
> > Intermittently, when I hit the F key (doesn't matter which one), mmtty
> > would key the radio, freeze for few seconds and hog the entire CPU time
> > 100 %.  Only mmtty.exe process does this.   All other processes appear
> > to be OK in the task manager.  Once mmtty comes back to life, everything
> > seems normal.
> >
> > This is not that much of an issue when calling CQ but in S&P mode, when
> > new mult comes back to you through the pileup and you send him continuos
> > carrier back instead of RST, this is when thing turn bad.
> >
> > 73, Nick
> > ve3ey
> >
> > VE3NE M/S team in WW/RJ contest.
> >
> >
> >
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