[WT-support] DELAYS

[Don Beattie]

I am not suggesting this is a Win-Test problem, but I just want to check
no-one else here has experienced this over the last weekend's contest.  

 

On CW, I found that the logging entry field would randomly freeze for short
periods, and despite typing the callsign of a new contact, it would not
appear for a few seconds in the window.  My first thought was that the
batteries in my wireless keyboard might be flat, so I fitted new ones - no
change.  I also saw a post recently that DX log had a few issues perhaps
when the cluster traffic was very high and I wondered whether W_T had
developed an issue. Of course traffic was high this weekend and although I
had a separate computer on the network handling the link to VE7CC, the
logging computer still had to accept the incoming spots over the network. So
I killed the ethernet link and that made no difference either.

 

My next thoughts turned to a Microsoft update earlier in the week and I
wonder if something has happened behind the scenes which affects Win-test.
Finally I had installed version 4.31 this week, which could perhaps have
introduced an issue.

 

I did think whether there was an RF problem with the wireless keyboard being
affected by the high RF fields around the shack. This is unlikely as I've
had that keyboard operating here for several years without any problem.

 

The effect seemed rather like the computer (an i7 with 4Gb RAM) was running
out of processing capacity. But I would expect that also to affect the tempo
of the outgoing CW, but that did not happen. No change in rhythm - totally
normal. 

 

So my question is "has anyone had a similar problem this week in the contest
- or indeed seen a similar problem with W-T in the past?"

 

If this is a first, then I must have some strange fault condition which will
take a bit of work to find, I think.

 

73

 

Don, G3BJ / G5W

 

 

Don Beattie, G3BJ

President IARU Region 1

Hares Cottage

Woolston

Church Stretton SY6 6QD

United Kingdom

+44 7802 922 219

g3bj.don at gmail.com

 

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