John, I agree with your opinion about computers, but since I'm usually talking to a customer at the time, I have to keep my mouth shut or say something like "How 'bout them Mets?" Check your sleep mode and see if it spins down the disk when sleeping. If you're not moving it, let the disk spin. If you are going to move it while its in sleep mode, let it shut down disk too so you don't have an inadvertent disk crash. That may take care of your problem. Mike Hawkins
"John H. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I love my WinRadio 313e and attribute a lot of my more recent "new" stations during dawn enhancement to the graphic display and all-round agility of that receiver and its GUI. HOWEVER, it is a computer-driven device and vulnerable to all of the glitches to which all such are sometimes prone. The laptop that I use to DX with has a great Sleep mode, so I leave it booted up all the time. I do shut down the 313e, if I'm going to be away from the radio for an hour or more. Well, I got up 90 minutes before sun-up, as usual, fired up the 313e, and opened up the software..... the %&*(($%*# computer wouldn't recognize the 313e. I tried it 3 or 4 times and the computer just couldn't see the 313e through the USB connection. After a bit of swearing, I began to trouble shoot, sort of in order of seriousness. In about 45 minutes of fear and trepidation (and dawn DX rapidly going to waste) I'd tried everything that I could think of, including reinstalling the software, right over the existing stuff. No luck at all. The last thing that I knew to try was to uninstall the software completely and do a "clean reinstall." I decided to go downstairs and get another cuppa coffee before uninstalling anything; while staring at the coffee pot, I realized that the one thing that I hadn't tried.... the thing that I should have tried first or second... was simply to reboot the ^$*&[EMAIL PROTECTED] computer. I knew that wouldn't really do any good, after all of the other things I'd tried, but I decided to do it anyway before doing the uninstall. Well, I did and OF COURSE that solved the problem entirely. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@! COMPUTERS!!! So, I finally got things going right about 20 minutes before sunrise and I just had time for one thorough sweep of the band...... It was FULL of audio and the audio was, on average, the strongest of the season. The spotlight seemed to be focused on Korea this morning, especially North Korea and southern Manchuria, just across the Yalu River. Things were doing well along the southern Asian coast, as well, with 1557 WYFR in audio for the first time this season and 675-Vietnam being HUGE! No Philippines this AM as the easiest channels were chock full of Koreans of various stripes. My only possible new station was 1296-CRI Kunming in Vietnamese doing fairly well near the end of dawn enhancement. I'll be watching that channel closely in the coming days. *^%&*%*## COMPUTERS! John B. _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com --------------------------------- Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com