Hello Frank and Mike I believe Mike is correct in suspecting an audio dropout. He helped me understand the complex power-use issues in Windows 10 (made even more complicated when running Parallels on a Mac).. instead of using the Halt button (which I never tried} I have to leave the WSJT FT8 program by switching to Safari or email or something else for a minute or two and then return to find my FT8 window covered in red with incoming received calls from the exotic DX stations I had called for hours that seemed to never reply for those hours on end.
While I don’t know exactly what’s happening, I had spent months with only a rare return call and then in frustration started to do something else to then return to see the fruits of the program’s labors. Fascinating question about whether the laptop display screen on the Macbook Pro effects the power usage of wsjtx FT8 enough to prevent or distort reception and/or decoding. Would love to know more from anyone about what might be going on, Best, and thanks Lorin WA1PGB Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 1, 2019, at 8:18 AM, Black Michael via wsjt-devel > <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > This can also be a symptom of audio dropouts. > > Here is a version of WSJT-X that shows you when you have audio problems. You > get a few messages at startup that are expected as the audio syncs up and > then you should never see them again unless you have problems. Catchup > messages indicate audio pausing and dropout messages indicate audio dropped > on the floor which can cause the WAV files to NOT get recorded due to > insufficient audio packets. > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/isxwjybws1i8u6f/wsjtx-2.0.1-win32-dropouts.exe?dl=1 > > de Mike W9MDB > > > On Monday, April 1, 2019, 10:10:23 AM CDT, Frank Kirschner > <frank.kirsch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Almost every time I'm trying to work a DX station, I call and call with no > success, until I hit Halt TX. As soon as I do that, the DX station comes back > to me. > > Could you write some software that would get the DX station to respond > sooner? This would help everyone, including the DX station. > > Also, some software that encouraged DX stations to respond to QSLs would be > nice. I've sent lots of "green stamps" with no result. > > Thanks, and happy April 1! > > 73, > Frank > KF6E > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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