[WriteLog] 11.01F Oddness

Mansfield Aubrey n3bm at finnsfield.net
Mon Feb 6 20:52:23 PST 2012


I've had exactly the same experience as K0BX.  Only had the problem if I tried to log while transmitting but it's very intermittent.  I'm not using v11.

- Aubrey N3BM

On Feb 6, 2012, at 10:13 PM, k0bx at arrl.net wrote:

> I too have had the frequency jumping problem and logging the wrong frequency 
> because of it.  I found my solution.
> It only happened to me when I was logging a qso while I has transmitting.  If I 
> waited until after the macro was finished and the rig went back to receive, I 
> would not have the problem.
> My solution was to add "%L" to the end of the macro that gave the report or the 
> thank you.  The %L logs the QSO before the rig has time to go into xmit.
> End of problem for me.
> 
> Joe K0BX
>  Stop the insanity!
> Please do not add me to any distribution lists (Joke, Stories or Junk) without 
> my permission. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Eric Rosenberg <ericrosenberg.dc at gmail.com>
> To: Writelog Reflector <writelog at contesting.com>; support at writelog.com
> Sent: Tue, February 7, 2012 2:45:38 AM
> Subject: [WriteLog] 11.01F Oddness
> 
> During the CQ 160 CW contest last weekend we (K2PS and me) ran into two 
> oddities and one function that didn't work in 11.01F.
> 
> We were operating assisted with a telnet feed (no skimmer... haven't 
> quite figured out how to configure it).
> 
> 1. Every once in a while the frequencies in the bandmap would -- on its 
> own -- change to some large number (non-ham frequency in 130 MHz range) 
> and then return to the actual frequency of the radio. The radio never 
> changed to the odd frequency. Pete says he's seen this happen in 
> previous versions. I haven't.
> 
> If you were unfortunate to have entered the QSO when the bandmap showed 
> you the odd frequency, WL put a red "B" next to the sequence number and 
> weird out-of-band frequency in the log. At first we thought we were 
> doing something wrong, but as the evening wore on, we would sit on our 
> hands and watch this happen all by itself!
> 
> I reiterate, we would sit on our hands and watch this happen all by 
> itself!I ran WL last night and it happened all by itself as I was doing 
> other stuff in the shack.
> 
> 2. The top of the mult window was off the screen, so we couldn't move it 
> to where we wanted to. We couldn't figure out how to move it other than 
> edit the INI file. Our problem was that we couldn't figure out what the 
> correct number (dimensions) was for us to be able to see enough of the 
> window to move it where we wanted to.
> 
> 3. The GetScores interface did not work.
> 
> Any thoughts/help in getting these things fixed is greatly appreciated!
> 
> 73,
> Eric W3DQ
> Washington, DC
> 
> Station:
>   TT Orion 565
>   MicroHam MicroKeyer II
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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