[WT-support] CQWW CW : another great WinTest weekend! A few comments

[Dave Sharred]

Hi Olivier;

I attach more comments to the points below, and cut away some of the extra
comments:

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at win-test.com
[mailto:support-bounces at win-test.com]On Behalf Of Olivier F5MZN
Sent: 29 November 2007 18:23
To: support at win-test.com
Subject: Re: [WT-support] CQWW CW : another great WinTest weekend! A
fewcomments

> 1 )  First problem was for some reason, I couldn't get the PC to key the
> radio.  From the USB II, I could test the RTS and DTR, and all was OK.
>
> I was wondering what I was doing wrong; but couldn't see anything. This
> cured itself with a complete reboot of the PC. Strange . WT wasn't talking
> to the USBII.

Did you try to stop/restart both Win-Test and USB Router? Anyway, please
get in touch if that happens too frequently!

NKC - I certainly restarted USBII, so I must also have restarted WT.   In
USBII, I could "see" my radio, and I could test both  the PTT and the CW
port. But not with WT started. I don't know if there is another service that
WT lost from the PC.   But a complete restart fixed it.  It wasn't a power
save issue; I left the PC on then for the complete 48 hours, and even when I
had a rest, I never had to restart anything....


> 2)  - I noticed that the CW speed seems to be a bit more erratic than
usual.
> It seems to be not so well controlled; and was irregular in speed. I don't
> know if any of the code changes have caused this, but I have never noticed
> it before.  Maybe I will have to move to a WinKey device in future ??

We did use WT with either Winkey and the internal CW keyer @TM2Y and I
don't remember that anybody complained about irregular speed (except the
speed jump with WinKey which seems still not working perfectly).

NKC - I remember thinking that I would have liked to measure the speed
differences; it just seemed to be a little variable; I could tell to my
ear....


> 3) - Don't know why the link to the Paris Telnet cluster should fall over;
> but I seemed to get disconnected too many times. I use WiFi to the house
PC,
> but this is normally very stable. If it wasn't a problem at the Cluster
end,
> then maybe it is disconnects from within  WT ???

Are you talking about the F5MZN-3 dx cluster? If so, the server is not
very stable and crashed a lot of time during the contest! By chance,
there is watchdog which does restart it automatically in case of freeze.

NKC - Yes; MZN-3 (the one that is in the default of WT !).  You have the
answer; maybe there could be a further enhancement in WT to automatically
reconnect with a small script file ??   It was a little bit difficult having
to re-enter your call and password when you had the automatic reconnect; it
only does part of the job for you ????  Just an idea !


73

Dave G3NKC