[Lowfer] WSPR intermittant upload problem

[Michael Sapp]

Jay: Wow, thanks for the tip! My ALL_WSPR.TXT file has grown to 6.5MB in 
size. No wonder the program chokes on my Acer netbook.... My hashtable.txt 
is under 600 bytes, no reason to touch it for a size issue.

I ran into an issue the other day where I had WA3TTS in the Setup call sign 
field in WSPR and WA3TTS/2 in the Setup call sign field for WSPR-X and the 
WSPR site would show my call on the map but not accept spots.  WSPR-X is in 
a folder in the C: drive root directory and WSPR is in the "Program Files" 
folder.  Not sure why the issue occurs other than perhaps the WSPR site is 
looking at my domain address and choking. Using the same call in both 
programs solved the problem...

I'm thinking I may want to keep at least one call sign entry for each 
station in the ALL_WSPR.TXT file if the program uses that information for 
some type of lookup function. I'm not a software guy, so I am unsure if that 
file is just an archive or if it has other uses in the WSPR-X program.

73, Mike wa3tts


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jrusgrove at comcast.net>
To: <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 6:16 PM
Subject: [Lowfer] WSPR intermittant upload problem


> While searching for a possible fix for the WSPR-X intermittant upload 
> problem, I've found that reducing the number of spots held in the 
> ALL_WSPR.TXT file seems to have helped ... the two computers have been 
> uploading flawlessly for a few days now ... which is a rare occurance.
>
> The ALL_WSPR.TXT  file can grow quite large as old spots are not 
> automatically deleted. I had spots in my file going back a couple years. 
> Rather than throw them away I used 'cut and paste' to move spots more than 
> a week old into a new text file (ALL_WSPRold.TXT for example).
>
> If anyone else gives this a try I'd be interested in hearing from them. 
> Should this solve the problem on other's systems I will send the 
> information to K1JT.
>
> Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2
>
>
>
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