[WT-support] network problem

[Tõnno Vähk]

This can't be it.

I had every station named from STN1 to STN5. And to my knowledge if they have the same name then the network is disabled at the moment of loading the log file.

But in my cases there could have been hours of operation when this came on and network was disabled. I was thinking that maybe two stations entered QSO at the same time, thus the unique QSO indentifier concept... But in times I think the RUN station was the only one entering a QSO when this happened.

I guess I have to do more testing...

From: rawilson at gmail.com [mailto:rawilson at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Bob Wilson, N6TV
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:42 PM
To: support at win-test.com
Cc: Tõnno Vähk
Subject: Re: [WT-support] network problem

This sounds almost exactly like the message you get when you have two computers on the network using exactly the same station name (e.g., "STN1").  Every computer on the Win-Test LAN must have a unique network name.  This must be configured at the bottom of the Contest Configuration Screen (shortcut text command:  REOPEN).  An easy way to create this problem is to copy the active .WT4 file from one computer to another without changing the station name in the file.

The station recording the QSO is also in the .WT4 file.  You can dump this information to a text file using the WRITELOG text command.  Just check "Text File" and click the Options button.  Then select "Station name" as one of the fields to be written to the text file.

Remember that every computer on the Win-Test LAN that is running Win-Test must have a unique name, including "support" or "backup" stations that are not logging any QSOs, and remote computers wired through some type of private VPN.

73,
Bob, N6TV
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Tõnno Vähk <Tonno.Vahk at gafm.ee<mailto:Tonno.Vahk at gafm.ee>> wrote:
We had one serious issue with WT 4.7 (XP on all 5 machines) in RDXC. One station out of 5 in the network kept announcing "Bad QSO identifier and network will be disabled" or similar. It was a longer message and unfortunately I did not copy it. Also said something about conflict with some other station I guess. This was a RUN station. So we had to RELOAD some 20+ times I guess to get the network back up. This has not happened before. Any reason this is happening in MS configuration in MIXED mode serial number contest?

Tonno


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