[Logic] Spot log

[Hank Phillips]

My spot log file is set to 1000 records, and the problem manifests itself 
pretty quickly.

What is the maximum?

I would also like to know what to look for as an index change indication.

Thanks

Hank AA4HP

At 06:21 PM 9/26/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>This sounds like what I have been seeing through several releases but I
>never associated it with an index change or my spot log filling up.  At
>least on my machine the soon to be lost spot almost seems to fade out over a
>fraction of a second.  How can you check to see if the index has changed and
>changed back.  If it's something visual I will watch for it.  I suspect my
>spot log is filled most of the time.
>
>Bob W2WG
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>On Behalf Of Ron NØAT
>Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 5:35 PM
>To: LOGic is open to all radio amateurs for discussion of LOGic logging
>program.
>Subject: Re: [Logic] Spot log
>
>There is an intermittent problem with the spot log, but only when it is
>full.
>
>When a new spot comes in, you expect the oldest spot to be deleted from the
>spot log.  But, sometimes, the index for deleting the spot gets changed to
>the callsign index.  In this case the spot with the last indexed callsign
>gets deleted.  In other words, if the spot log is full, then the index is
>temporarily changed to callsign, the last callsign is deleted, then the
>index is changed back to chronological.
>
>If you erase the spot log, the problem will go away.
>
>I reported this to Dennis.  He said I am the only one having this problem.
>So I set the spot log size to the maximum, and erase it every few months.
>
>73 de Ron  NØAT
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "C.M. Christensen" <cchrisac0m at cox.net>
>To: "LOGic is open to all radio amateurs for discussion of LOGic logging
>program." <logic at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 07:26
>Subject: Re: [Logic] Spot log
>
>
>This has been happening here through several releases. The only thing I
>can do is erase all of the spots and start with a new screen for the
>spot log and then they come back. Weird for sure.
>--
>73,
>Chris, ACØM
>
>Robert Carroll wrote:
>
> > I don't have a problem with the length of the spot log, but I have been
> > watching when I saw one appear on the spot log--and disappear within a
> > second.  I have seen this behavior a good while prior to February--in the
> > previous version of Logic--and it's still there.  T will be hard to find
> > the
> > problem because it occurs infrequently--but sometimes for 3-4 spots in a
> > row
> > or sometimes with a couple of spots between the ones which disappear.  If
> > those who are seeing this report it and the circumstances it may help
> > Dennis
> > find the problem.  In my case I have 2 telnet windows and the DX Cluster
> > open--which may be relevant.  Also I think I have heard "partial"
> > announcements of the spots which disappeared--for instance an OZ spot
> > might
> > be announced as O.  On occasion I have heard a spot starting to be
> > announced
> > only to be interrupted by another spot--maybe from another telnet or the
> > DX
> > cluster--only to have the original announcement completed after the
> > intervening spot.  Maybe somehow the several sources of spots are
> > clobbering
> > each other.
> >
> > Bob W2WG
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> > On Behalf Of Hank Phillips
> > Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 3:49 PM
> > To: mel.martin at axare.mail.net; LOGic is open to all radio amateurs for
> > discussion of LOGic logging program.
> > Subject: Re: [Logic] Spot log
> >
> > No.  I am running .119 nd have seen approximately the same problem for
> > several minor releases.  I first reported it in February, but nobody else
> > seems to be able to reproduce it.
> >
> > The spot will announce, and if you are really quick sometimes you can see
> > it visible briefly.
> >
> > Clearing the spot buffer seems to get us working again for a while, but
> > the
> > problem returns.
> > I have done a "clean" and that doesn't seem to help either.
> >
> > I have also seen another weird spot behavior:  If I am trying to print a
> > report and I am half way through some of the early screens specifying the
> > report criteria, and incoming spot will knock me out of report
> > writer.  That is not as much of a bother as the spot disappearing and
> > spots
> > not displaying.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Hank
> > AA4HP
> >
> >
> >
> >>Am I the only one having trouble with the spot log with ver .123
> >>
> >>After about 30 spots the window won't display any more spots...
> >>
> >>
> >>Mel...
> >>VE2DC
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