[WriteLog] 11.01F Oddness

[Gordon LaPoint]

Hi,
    I have seen this with multiple radios (Icom, Kenwood)  I narrowed it down to 
RF getting in the rig serial control line and getting bad frequency data into the 
computer.   When I added shielding to the serial (CI/V for Icom) line the problem went 
away.  I had lots of RF in the shack at high power (500 watts) during RTTY contests.  I 
have since reduced the rf problem in the shack, (by moving antennas, getting better SWR 
by tuning antennas, etc.)  and the problem has not occurred for some time now.
The problem was not as noticable on CW or SSB as on RTTY, probably because rtty has a 
higher duty cycle.

In my experience with this problem it is caused by rf on the CPU to radio control line 
and/or RF getting into the computer.

Gordon - N1MGO

On 6 Feb 2012 at 21:45, Eric Rosenberg wrote:

> 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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