[WT-support] New User

Hans Johansson sm0imj at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 16:27:44 CEST 2009


Hi Marcelo,
Regarding the DX-Cluster problem.
Do you use a USB mobile phone internet modem?
I know that there is an issue with that specific combination.

Hans - SMØIMJ

On 6/3/09, marcelo at alternex.com.br <marcelo at alternex.com.br> wrote:
>
>
> Hello
> everyone
>
>
>
>
>
> Last
> weekend WPX was my first contest with win-test. I’ve been wanting to
> give it a try
> for a long time, so I decided to jump in right in a big contest.
>
>
>
>
>
> I was
> impressed and very pleased with the software, but had some issues that I´d
> like to
> share and get some input from the community.
>
>
>
>
>
> First I could never get the DXCluster interface
> to work. The Telnet client connected, but I got the dreaded "Error opening
> UDP
> socket #10013" message whenever I
> tried to configure the loopback IP. From what I saw in the archives, this is
> probably
> caused by some other piece of software. I’ll investigate that.
>
>
>
>
>
> I found the outgoing
> serial numbers a bit crammed. Maybe it is just an impression, but I had an
> unusual high
> number of repeat requests. Is there any parameter anywhere (wintest, winkey)
> to insert a
> tiny fraction of a second between each figure of the S/N?
>
>
>
>
>
> I also had
> a small but annoying delay between pressing the + key and the start of
> transmission.
> Maybe I need a faster computer, maybe it’s the time to process the
> $CORRECT. It is
> really annoying in fast pile-ups.
>
>
>
>
>
> Apart from
> these issues, I was very pleased with the software, and intend to definitely
> make the
> switch. There some other small things I need to get more used to, like the
> overwrite
> mode when typing serial numbers, but that’s part of the learning
> curve.
>
>
>
>
>
> 73 and CU
> in the contests
>
>
>
> Marcelo,
> PY1KN
>
>
>
>


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Hans Johansson - SMØIMJ
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