[WT-support] Problems observed at LZ9W M/M with Win-Test

[wally]

Hello Tim,

Nice to hear from you and thank you for your promt answer to my questions.

As I said earlier we are extremely satisfied with Win-Test after numerous
network problems experienced when using CT, Writelog and N1MM in M/M
environment.
Program is very stable and works nicely.

After your comments and comments I received from DR1A guys, it looks there is
a problem with our PCs here and we will try to find and solve the problem
until March 2009 (WPX SSB 2009 contest )

Best wishes to all K3LR M/M team members. 

Merry Christmas and HNY 2009 to all Win-Test users and to creators of a
"winning" software :-)!

73, de Wally LZ2CJ 

P.S. Some of our guys at LZ9W will be on for fun in ARRL 2009 contests.

--- "Tim Duffy K3LR" <k3lr at k3lr.com> написано:
> Hello Wally!
> 
> We logged almost 7000 QSOs during CQWW CW and over 8000 QSOs during CQWW
> Phone this year. We have never observed the problem you describe. No
> monitors blink and no delays of log entries. Also CW sending is perfect at
> the beginning and at the end of the contest. We have been using WinTest for
> 3 years now. It is very stable.
> 
> I am not a computer expert, but it is possible the problems you describe
> could be caused by something running in the background of your PC system or
> another program memory conflict which is slowing the processor/video system
> down when 5000 QSOs are reached.
> 
> Based on our experience with WinTest I do not believe that your problem is
> caused by WinTest, but something is going on with your PCs.
> 
> Good Luck and let us know what you find.
> 
> Very 73 and Best DX!
> 
> Tim K3LR
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at win-test.com [mailto:support-bounces at win-test.com] On
> Behalf Of wally
> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:11 AM
> To: support at win-test.com
> Subject: [WT-support] Problems observed at LZ9W M/M with Win-Test
> 
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> That is Wally LZ2CJ from LZ9W M-M Contest Team.
> As you know we have purchased recently Win-Test and we have used it in M/M
> Category in last CQWW SSB and CW 2008 tests.
> 
> Although we are overall satisfied with software performance and especially
> satisfied by program's network behaviour, we also observed some small but
> very annoying problem :
> After reaching the QSO number of  say over 5000 QSOs a simultaneous
blinking
> with appearance for a second or two of white blank screen on all monitors
at
> each operating position. This was combined with unability to transmit
> normally on CW as a separate problem. After pushing the F1(or other) button
> for example, it was taking 2 seconds for transmission to start and this is
> not good when one has 2 - 3 stations calling. There was a delay
> in writing the calls in the log - similar delay of 2-3 seconds, too.
> 
> Was this a problem of the software or there is something we have to do with
> our PCs ?
> 
> PCs here are all DELL with processors at 1.7 Ghz, RAM 512Mb and HD 80 Gb.
> (Windows XP )These are used for contest work only and during CQWW CW only
> one
> PC was connected to Internet to get the cluster and served as main server
> for all other PCs. No additional software was made active on rest of PCs
> trying to prevent the abovementioned problem, firstly observed in CQWW SSB.
> However, this approach does not made any effect on solving the blinking
> monitors and transmission and writing delays problem.
> 
> Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
> Best regards.
> 
> 73 de Wally LZ2CJ
> on behalf of LZ9W M/M Contest Team
> 
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