[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
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Support mailing list
> support at win-test.com
> http://lists.f5mzn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20150713/21105fe5/attachment-0001.html>


More information about the Support mailing list