[Lowfer] WSPR intermittant upload problem

[jrusgrove at comcast.net]

Mike

In order to test the hypothesis ... I think I'd eliminate all spots older than a week or two. One 
can always cut and paste them back in at a later date if so desired. My hunch is that older spots 
may be causing the problem.

Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Sapp" <wa3tts at verizon.net>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] WSPR intermittant upload problem


> 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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