[Elecraft] EQP 2004 logging problem (long)

[Deinhardt, Toby]

Hi Gus,

> During the EQP I used the EQP_2004.exe program for logging. It worked well
> until very near the end of the QSO party period. During the last hour I
> keyed in the data for QSO number 107 and pressed the Enter key. A dreaded
> error message popped up informing me that the program had committed an
> illegal operation and was being terminated. I dutifully clicked OK and the
> program exited. Then I checked my log file and found it had 0 bytes in it!

Sorry to hear that you had serious problems with the software.

I would of course like to know more (if possible):

1) OS, Patchlevel (Service Pack), etc.
2) Hardware (CPU, memory, etc.)
3) Please send me whatever you managed to recover
4) An exact description of what you did just before the crash
5) The exact error message

I doubt that I'll find the problem easily, but knowing one is there is
better
than not knowing. I did all of the programming and testing on an XP
Professional
(German) system, i.e. I was not able to do extensive testing. I'm not sure I
created test logs with more 100 QSOs, so maybe there is a problem with the
length of the log.

> By the way, I think Toby did a good job on the program, especially given
the
> limited time available to him. The cause of the program exception is
> unknown. It could have been a problem on my disk, the OS, or something I
did
> wrong in operating the program. The lessons learned are 1) use beta
software
> with caution, and 2) make frequent backups.

Thank you. I'll think about some form of automatic backups for next year -
the
to do list: once again growing ... hi hi

vy 73 de toby