[WriteLog] How often during a typical contest weekend do you have to restart WriteLog?

[Alan Maenchen]

I've had quite good luck with WL over many years.  Thanks!
Networking has been a problem to setup, but I've not tried it recently
(within the last three years).

Last week, my computer decided to re-boot 17 minutes into the mini-CWT with
no explaination.  I saw a pop-up asking if I wanted to save the log file ..
which I did. Then it was the usual Mickeysoft popup saying "We're gonna
crash now .. OK?"  After re-boot, no further problems.

OK, probably not WL related, but that's all I was running at the time (plus
the microHAM router). No networking.
Win7-64; quad-core CPU
telnet was open, but not connected (no packet running)
two band maps were active, but not much on either one.

If this helps in any way, good.  If not, pls ignore.

73, Alan  AD6E

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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:20:39 -0000
> From: "W. Wright, W5XD" <w5xd at writelog.com>
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] How often during a typical contest weekend do
>        you     have to restart WriteLog?
> To: <writelog at contesting.com>
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> All:
> Thank you for all the responses. My poll was not well designed enough to
> derive much in the way of quantitative metrics. Here are the only numbers I
> can back up from my emails received:
>
> 44 answers
> roughly 1/2 said "never" or "48"
> worst case among the answers was an estimated 12 hours, which I assigned to
> 3 of the responses. (specifically "3 times per 48 hrs" which I will
> translate to "mean time to failure" by dividing 48 hours into 4
> trouble-free
> timeperiods of 12 hours each)
>
> How I got the numbers:
> Counting all the answers I could find, there are 44 answers. My question
> was
> poorly formed, so some answered only directly to me, some only to the
> reflector, and some to both, so I could have introduced an error just by
> collating. I don't think it is meaningful to try to assign an average or
> anthing other the best case and worst case, which I present above.
>
> My original question to the reflector failed to ask whether WL networking
> was being run. (Specifically, "Setup/Link to Network"). Do users of that
> feature have more problem with forced shutdowns?
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne, W5XD
>
>