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

[Braco OE1EMS]

what?s the problem?

73 ems
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "wally" <wally at el-soft.com>
To: <support at win-test.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [WT-support] Problems observed at LZ9W M/M with Win-Test


> 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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