[WT-support] STRANGE HAPPENINGS
HA6PX Csaba Molnár
ha6px at starjan.hu
Mon Jul 13 11:11:33 CEST 2015
Don,
it is very old an main problem...
When use advanced SO2R MIXED mode. Wait the solution.
73...Csaba-HA6PX
2015.07.12. 14:25 keltezéssel, Don Beattie írta:
>
> After many years of faultless operation with Win-Test, the IARU
> Contest showed a very strange fault. Let me describe it.
>
> I was running 2 x FT5000 in SO2R, using a Microham u2R controller.
> This is the same arrangement that I have used for yours without any
> issues.
>
> On several occasions the following fault would develop when on CW.
> Win-Test would start by losing the full CW message on the insert key.
> It would still send 599 + zone when pressing the insert key, but the
> call sign was not linked to it. So I would finish the QSO manually,
> and log it. On pressing <enter> to log the QSO , Win-Test changed the
> next logging line to SSB! I could not change it back to CW, even
> though the rig was set to CW, and I was still able to key it manually.
> The only cure I found was to change bands on the rig (eg from 15m to
> 20 then back to 15m) and Win-Test would then return to CW.
>
> I tried to work out what the environment was when this happened ( it
> happened about 6 times in the contest this weekend). The only common
> factor was that just before the fault, I had been bringing spots down
> from the band map into the second rig – on SSB – by clicking on the
> spot, and so moving the second FT5000’s “A” VFO. I had also been
> switching the active radio using the “*” key and switching the latch
> on the u2R. So I think there is something happening when making
> adjustments to the second transceiver, which seems to upset the first one.
>
> Has this been seen before? If so, is there something I can do about
> it? I don’t often take part in multi-mode contests, so have not
> noticed this before. I’m using 4.17, - ie the latest release.
>
> 73
>
> *Don, G3BJ / G5W*
>
> www.g3bj.com
>
>
>
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