[WT-support] Wrong Frequency logged on second radio contacts

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

Correction:  I was using Win-Test 4.7 in the contest, not 4.9.1.  So I'm
afraid I have not really replicated your WT 4.8 environment.

73,
Bob, N6TV

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:

> During the ARRL Sweepstakes contest last weekend, unfortunately using
> Windows 7 with unreliable Prolific USB-to-Serial adapters on each Elecraft
> K3 radio, I was noticing that from time to time the frequency readout of
> the inactive radio was displayed as a crazy number that made no sense.  I
> was able to temporarily fix the problem by doing SETUP [Enter] [Enter],
> which resets all Win-Test I/O port communications, but the problem returned
> every few hours.  As we should all know by know, using Prolific USB drivers
> are to be avoided, especially under Windows 7.  I tried setting DTR and RTS
> to *Always ON*, but it did not help.
>
> I noted that the *band* displayed by Win-Test 4.9.1 was always OK, but
> the frequency often was not.
>
> However, when I compared band to frequency later, in the exported TXT
> file, I could not find a single QSO that was logged on the wrong band.
>  Many QSOs were logged on 21.000 or 28.000 instead of the true and accurate
> frequency, apparently at the time that the crazy radio frequencies were
> being noticed in the Alt-J (Status) and Band Map windows, but no QSOs were
> logged on the wrong band.  I made hundreds of secondary radio QSOs too.
>
> The Win-Test 4.9.1 Release.txt file makes no mention of any fixes in this
> area, but maybe that is just an oversight in the documentation.
>
> Please remind me, which USB-to-Serial adapter are you using Bjorn?  The
> N1MM documentation documents a good summary of what is available:
>
> http://n1mm.hamdocs.com/tiki-index.php?page=USB+Interface+Devices
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Bjorn LB1GB <lb1gb at la8w.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone had a chance to check their logs for wrong frequency logging on
>> the second radio?
>>
>> 73 Bjorn LB1GB/LN8W
>>
>> On 5 November 2011 15:01, Bjorn LB1GB <lb1gb at la8w.com> wrote:
>> > Again we experience wrong frequency logged on several second radio
>> > contacts, band is logged correctly.
>> > Cabrillo output is frequency so this will many times produce dupes
>> > instead of mults.
>> >
>> > We used WT version 4.8.0
>> > Has anyone experience this with 4.9.1?
>> >
>> > 73 Bjorn LB1GB
>>
>
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