[WT-support] erratic CW sending V 37.1

[John Crovelli]

Bob,

 

I"m using WT 3.27.1 and for the first time ran into a CW problem at the start of this year's CQWW CW at P40W

 

The computer is a Dell Laptop, 1.6 mhz, 1/2 meg of RAM.

 

The computer had been on continuously for 4 days prior to the contest start.  When I attempted to send CW with the computer (I use an LPT connection), everything sounded 'clipped' like the weight control was way too light.

 

The fix was to clean the temporary internet files and everything else that CCleaner eradicates and  then reboot the computer.   All was well the rest of the weekend but it was a real shock to hear the clipped code at the beginning of the contest, there was no way I could do the contest the way it sounded......and then the time required to make it work correctly ...... was agonizing at the start of the contest.  :-)  

 

GL and 73,

 

John W2GD aka P40W
 


From: n6tv at arrl.net
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:33:43 -0800
To: support at win-test.com
Subject: Re: [WT-support] erratic CW sending with internet


I am kind of puzzled by these reports because I never had a timing problem running Win-Test 3 with LPT port keying even on slow PCs.  But since then I started using a WinKey (comes with MK2R+).

The only time I could make LPT CW sound funny was when tried to use the mouse to select a Win-Test menu item while it was sending.  Other than that, the CW was perfect.

But I agree, 256 KB RAM is way too little to run anything on Windows XP; the result will be lots of memory paging and disk I/O and that will slow everything down.

Is everyone seeing a new issue in Win-Test 4 having to do with poor CW timing when using LPT or COM port keying instead of a WinKey?

73,
Bob, N6TV

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:23 PM, OK1VSH Standa <ok1vsh at gmail.com> wrote:


Source of this problem is Windows. You must use for example procucts from K1EL

Patrick 9A5CW wrote: 




Hi,
try this small utility http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/index.html maybe helps a bit, check your current CPU speed b4 using this utility.
 
73


On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jorge Diez - CX6VM <cx6vm.jorge at adinet.com.uy> wrote:




Hello,
 
I have  PIII 1000 MHz with 256 RAM
 
A nice laptop still with LPT port!
 
This weekend we try internet and seems that when internet is running, some pages are loading or the spots are refreshing, the CW that send through a LPT interface became very bad.
 
Sometimes CW6W, CW5Q, or something very bad instead of the correct CW5W.
 
IS this notebook marginal to use with internet and Win-Test?
 
Thanks!
Jorge
CX6VM/CW5W
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