First, Thanks for getting this all set up and ready to run for the Ohio QSO Party. However I did have a few issues that I want to relay. I was running August ‘25 (patch 1) Release: 25.8.1 - Base Build 25.8.8051. All of these problems occurred after about 150-200 contacts were in the log.
- Three times during the QSO party Ham2k crashed. The screen went black, then about 5 seconds later it closed out. When I restarted it, everything was still there… no data lost. EXCEPT, for once, when I had typed the call sign in but had not yet hit enter when it crashed. So I lost that call. I was still on that QSO, so I was able to get his call again and re-enter it when I got it back open. Also, when I exported the files, I noticed that there were double entries where Ham2K crashed.
- I had some lagging issues that caused logging issues. For example, when I received a call from someone in FL and entered FL then . Ham2K would send the QSO up to the QSO window, but only the F was there. This happened several times with various states. I even began to pause for a few moments to give it time to acknowledge but it still sometimes missed the second letter. Again, no real data loss, I just had to go through the logs carefully and make sure all the locations were there.
- Finally, I know when we enter the location, it provides us a “help" window to make sure we get our multiplier correct. However, after one of the crashes, I had a permanent “help” window showing. I grabbed a screen shot of this and will attach it to this report (hopefully).
All-in-all I think Ham2K ran fine. Fortunately most of the bugs were during slower periods of the contest. So thanks for making this available. Let me know if you need more information.
73, Kevin-W8NI
