[WT-support] Re: [microHAM] new router software

[Rudolf Schwenger]

Hi Paul,

my setup is a lot simpler: IC-781 driving an ALPHA 87A plus an old microKEYER and a 1 GHz NB running XP prof. The contest logging programme is WIN-Test. 

I did the same thing you did, i.e. 2 days before the contest I downloaded the latest version of WIN-Test and the latest version of the router. 

>From previous experience almost each and every cable in my shack  is run through big ferrite toroids, so I feel the station is pretty much RFI-proof.

Everything went fine for the first 30 hours until Sunday morning - leave alone the fact that there are sometimes strange delays between pressing the F1 key for an automatic cq-message to be transmitted and the moment when the message was actually transmitted - ranging between maybe .1 sec to slightly more than a second).

Then, on Sunday morning at around QSO number 800 the band map did not follow the radio any more, which, of course, is a major disadvantage for competitive contesting. The problem had nothing to do with the communication between the radio and the computer, since the router windows continued to show the exact frequencies of the radio with almost no delay. But for some reason or other WIN-TEST was unable to transfer the information into the band map and the QSO-records (all the subsequent QSO-records show the frequency of the relevant lower edge of the band and any change of the bands had to be effected manually using the WIN-Test tools bar.) Very messy and I am sure that there are now some qrg-mistakes in my log.

When the problem started I received the following message: "NETWORK RECEIVED BAD CHECKSUM". Actually, I am not aware of using a network apart from getting my DX-cluster-info from Telnet via internet and a WLAN which provides the DSL link for internet and telephones in my house. Of course, I rebooted, switched everything off, checked the menues, but could not find any mistake.

The other problem, which popped up shortly after the "bad checksum"-problem, was exactly the same problem you described, i.e. I got a message indicating that something terrible had happend and asking whether I wanted to send a message concerning the problem to MICROSOFT. No matter whether I chose YES or NO WIN-Test was closed down shortly thereafter and the machine defaulted to the desktop picture necessitating a new start of WIN-TEST. The TELNET software and the ROUTER apparently were not effected by the shut down of WIN-TEST. This problem happend about 8 to 10 times from Sunday morning to the end of the contest and most likely had nothing to do with any action on my part, i.e. when I was just listening and slowly tuning a band, this message suddenly popped up. Heaven knows why.

The "bad checksum"-problem continues to exist, i.e. still no transfer of frequency-info is possible to WIN-TEST, while I assume that the sudden shut down also still exists in conjunction with WIN-TEST, however I don't know for sure, since this problem only pops up every other hour or so. 

I just hope that anybody of the group respectively Laurant or Jozef have a clue.....

Pse keep me posted,

vy 73 de Rudolf, DJ3WE




----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul_group 
  To: microHAM at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:51 PM
  Subject: [microHAM] new router software


  Just before WWSSB and against my better judgement I decided to update my 
  router to V4.0.5.5820. At the same time I updated N1MM a couple of 
  versions to 6.10.11

  All went smoothly, no errors reported and after setting the audio levels 
  again in the mixer tab all seemed fine.

  Router controls two microkeyers - Left IC756P11 Right IC746 and N1MM 
  drives the router.

  This setup has worked flawlessly for several months.

  Throughout the weekend I was plagued by the router stopping and windows 
  XP reporting an error has occurred etc.. would you like to send a report 
  etc.. Shortly after the error N1MM reported that it had lost comms with 
  the radio(s)

  During the event I completely de installed the router and profiles and 
  started from scratch even re flashing the two keyers. I ended up with 
  just one very simple profile for the 756 with just CIV / Keying and 
  Audio switching, as simple as possible. With this simple setup I still 
  had regular failures.

  I noticed that this occurred most often while nothing was being touched, 
  it never failed in a pile up, it never failed while running.

  This was still happening at the close of the contest so its still there 
  for me to fix - so:

  Are there any other users that have experienced similar?
  Are there any diagnostic pointers to look for?

  Regards Paul

  -- 
  73 de Paul GW8IZR IO73TI
  http://www.gw8izr.com



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