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Subject: [ct-user] crash with WRITELOG
From: k8dd at arrl.net (Hank Kohl K8DD)
Date: Tue Jul 1 10:34:49 2003
I had the same thing on a Dell2650/WinXP pro/CTwin 990-007. Crashed
every time I did a WRITELOG.

Since you only need a Dupe sheet, do a WRITEDUPE and if you want a
summary sheet, do a WRITESUM.
The dupe sheets are all you need to send in witht he FD entry sheet you
can download from arrl.org.

73 Hank K8DD

At 6/30/2003 11:18 PM -0400, Kurt W. Zimmerman wrote:

>Greetings all;
>         I have CT Win loaded on my NT4 laptop and am getting a system 
> crash when
>entering in the WRITELOG command.  I am wondering if there is something
>that I might be doing wrong.  Would like some help here.  Want to get the
>FD logs to the ARRL.  CT ran without a problem being able to control my rig
>as well as key the rig in CW.
>
>
>System info.
>Compaq Armada 233 mhz w/ 128m ram
>Windows NT 4 sp6
>CT v 9.90.006
>
>
>73;
>Kurt - W2MW
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:   Alan Harp [SMTP:k4pb@arrl.net]
>Sent:   Monday, June 30, 2003 11:10 PM
>To:     CT user group
>Subject:        [ct-user] crash with WRITELOG
>
>On the computer where I had a fatal error executing WRITELOG after the
>field
>day contest:
>
>I loaded CT DOS and transfered the .BIN file to that directory.  CT DOS
>9.90
>loaded the .BIN file that was created with CT WIN  with no problem.
>WRITELOG executed with no problem.
>
>For some reason I can't get the serial port to control the radio on this
>computer in the DOS version.
>
>I have been using an old IBM PS2 laptop for CT.  This 386 machine worked
>many contests with CT for me over the years.  I loaded the new version 9.90
>with the ability to send CW with a paddle on the serial port.  I used this
>program to run the Florida QSO party.  The real time clock on the computer
>ran slow and all the QSO times are off.  The clock lost over an hour before
>I noticed this.  Later testing showed that the real time clock looses time
>when CT DOS is launched even if there is no activity such as logging or
>sending CW.
>
>So when I ran CT DOS on this pentium lap top with Windows 98 I was cautious
>about the time.  There was no problem with the clock.  The problem that I
>observed running CT DOS on the 386 laptop did not occur with the
>pentium/windows 98 machine.
>
>I would advise anyone using old computers with CT DOS to be sure that the
>program is not effecting your clock.
>
>Alan K4PB
>
>
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