It appears that the little changes I made last month, in the software location for the AGW software, have reduced the persistent stops and lock-outs of the TRacker program and the PEpro Time will tell but so far since I made the final corrections on June 28 neither the weather or APRS portions have locked up. At least I see good chart flow.
I run an AMD tri-core computer we built up and have Windows 7 64bit operating system. Being old school I had installed the software in the usual place under the x86 program folder. After reading all the comments and posts and some from George that to avoid some of the issues with windows 7 and UAC along with getting software to run. Originally I had set it all to run as administrator and it would work but occasionally it would lock out the TRacker (usually when it got busy and needed to save something I am guessing. IT at times would even lock up the PEpro and dump totally out.
I had due to these fears set the computer to “re-start” every night at 3am so just in case I was not aware or watching it the thing would come back up daily. This was a “work-around” but my only way out.
I recently decided to move all the SV2AGW software into the “my documents” folders. Set up new links, got all the software to work from there and links working along with making sure my VWS was working and sending the weather data and the Tracker could pull the text file up to send. This took some time to work out the kinks in this but after the move out of the program file area I have had not further “crash” instances.
I am not saying this solved all the problems or that I know what the heck is going on, but it is what I did and my observations now are that it is more stable and not crashing.
However, I still believe that Tracker has an inherent problem in that if the internet link goes down for an extended period or there is sufficient noise that it gets no response over maybe 15 minutes – it will quit trying for may be hours before it resets with a link and data is again sent out?
It would be nice to have access to the persistence, if nothing more than a single click for normal and aggressive persistence for those of us that have up and down internet connections. Mine has been better over the past few months but for some time it would get noise and all our links would be real slow or none usable. Maybe the phone company finally fixed the links and I am on a better line?
AT this point, it appears the APRS gateway and digi here (WD0AJG) are more stable than over the past 10 months? Time will tell if this was the fix or not.
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