[Lowfer] WSPR intermittant upload problem

[Michael Sapp]

Jay: Agreed. I will give it a try. Thanks for you insight.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jrusgrove at comcast.net>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" 
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Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] WSPR intermittant upload problem


> 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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