John It's curious that you mention lock up associated with running QRZ.com...
I never have had lock up with DX4WIN, and I don't run QRZ.com (though thought maybe I ought to....) However; I have noticed when I fire up QRZ.COM in recent times; it often locks up Explorer (stuck on something called googlead.....; and Explorer doesn't respond. This happened on 2 Windows XP PC's that never did this before. The point is - if Explorer locks up AND you are using on line QRZ.com, just maybe DX4WIN is locking up ..... just like if you pull the plug on rig control ????? Hope the comment is useful 73 Dave G3NKC -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Shaw Sent: 16 March 2008 19:38 To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: RE: [Dx4win] A strange "Bug" continues Hi Ken, I have been using DX4WIN you many years and found it a very stable program. However I have had one instance of it repeatedly locking up. This was on one particular callsign, which I can't remember now but every time I typed in the call wamo DX4WIN was toast. In my case it was my QRZ callsign data base that caused the problem. If I didn't have the lookup running it was fine, if I did there was trouble. So while your problem sounds a little different, it does raise the point that it could be some associated activity. If have any feature running in DX4WIN asking it to call some other database lookup etc, turn it off and see if the problem goes away. 73 John ZL1BYZ. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Kopp Sent: Monday, 17 March 2008 4:56 a.m. To: Dx4win@Mailman.Qth.Net Subject: [Dx4win] A strange "Bug" continues My thanks to all who have responded with possible causes, questions, etc. Lotsa knowledge here, and that's why I asked the question. It seems unlikely that it's a key malfunction matter, as it ONLY occurs with a W5Axx call entry ... not with a 5Axx or any combination of letters surrounding the 5 ... and not with any other number/letter combination. It only happens with W5A. Remember, I've now entered about 15K QSO's and this is the only problem I've seen. I haven't connected another keyboard ... I will. The one in use is a Logitec cordless. Related to a key logger? I doubt it, as the computer in question is almost never "on line", and is used only for DX4WIN. The computer's OS is XP and it has Norton 2007, Spybot and Ad-Aware software that's updated and run once a week ... about the only time the machine's "on line". The only other "on line" activity is to visit the Elecraft site for updates to my K3. The laptop that works OK has the same OS and software ... they are almost mirror images of each other. I don't view the program as "crashed" as one respondent termed it. The "A" keystroke just instantly returns me to the open desktop and then I can restart he program "normally" via the DX4WIN icon. All data is then current through the last auto back-up no more than one minute prior to the closure. Thank you all for your efforts ... I'll let you know what/if I find. 73! Ken Kop - K0PP [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win _______________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
