[WT-support] Sudden Keying Problems

[Hal Offutt]

Hello,

Win-Test has been performing fine recently.  I worked 450 stations in FD and had 630 contacts in the RAC with no problems.

Last night in the NCCC Sprint, Win-Test went crazy on me.  I set things up an hour in advance and when I hit F4 for my first contact, it kept repeating my call and esc would not stop it.  I shut off the rig (K3, 100 watts no amp) and when I turned it on again I got "key err" on the display.  I probably should have shut down WT instead of the rig.   Next I shut down WT and started it up again.  This time it wouldn't send at all even though it said "Win-Key detected."  I rebooted the computer 2-3 times but it still wouldn't key.  

Then I created a new log and everything was okay again.  I finished up the last 12 minutes of the contest with no problems.  This morning I tested the log file that gave me so much trouble last night and it works fine.

This morning I have also been testing things to see if I could reproduce last night's problem and unfortunately I was successful on a different band with a different antenna.  I was using the F1 CQ message but it wouldn't stop sending and ESC will not work.  Rebooting the computer fixed the problem.  

The computer is  Windows XP Pro SP3.  The computer is less than one year old.  I am using Win-Test Ver 4.5.1

I wonder if anyone has experienced something like this and what you did to fix the problem.

I am planning a full effort in IARU tomorrow so I am worried that this issue could surface again during the contest.

Thanks & 73,

Hal W1NN 
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