[WT-support] LOCK-UP

[Don Beattie]

Sorry Bob - too much haste.

Keyboard is PS2 through a PS2:USB adaptor to an XP desktop.

I'll run some full power tests today and see what happens.

73

Don



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> From: "Bob Wilson, N6TV" <n6tv at arrl.net>
>To: Don Beattie <g3ozf at btinternet.com> 
>Sent: Friday, 21 June 2013, 8:39
>Subject: Re: [WT-support] LOCK-UP
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>OK Don, but you didn't answer my other questions.
>73,
>Bob, N6TV
>On Jun 21, 2013 12:32 AM, "Don Beattie" <g3ozf at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>Thanks Bob,
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>>I doubt RFI. This is a low-power contest, and so I was running just 100w into co-ax fed antennas 100 metres from the house at 1.1:1 VSWR. The station here as been bomb-proof for years at full power. But I'll have a look around to see if there is any problem of that sort. 
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>>I guess (hope) I may have to wait another ten years for it to happen again!
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>>Don
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>>> From: "Bob Wilson, N6TV" <n6tv at arrl.net>
>>>To: Win-Test Reflector <support at win-test.com>; Don Beattie <g3ozf at btinternet.com> 
>>>Sent: Friday, 21 June 2013, 8:23
>>>Subject: Re: [WT-support] LOCK-UP
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>>>On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Don Beattie <g3ozf at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>>>Is there any history of the xdt routine causing lock-up ?
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>>>Not of which I am aware.  But if I understand your description, even after exiting Win-Test, the keyboard was still unusuable?  That sounds like a weak connector or an RFI issue, not a software issue.
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>>>If you are using a USB keyboard, try unplugging it, then plugging it back in.  Or were you using a built-in notebook keyboard?  Or were you using a docking station?
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>>>Please try to reproduce the problem, step by step, otherwise there is little hope of any "fix" being provided.
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>>>I'm betting on RFI though.  All it takes is one weak coax connector that arcs, or static discharge from a wool sweater to cause a keyboard to hang, depending on the hardware and how well it is shielded and grounded.
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>>>73,
>>>Bob, N6TV
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