Re: SpotCollector keeps going into yellow status
https://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxlabwiki/OptimizeSCPerformance Most likely because SpotCollector can not keep up with the number/rate of incoming spots. I say that because you indicate the "yellow" status
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Joe Subich, W4TV
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#228745
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SpotCollector keeps going into yellow status
Over the past few weeks I've had issues with SpotCollector turning to yellow status for my sources. Sometimes it's all 4 sources that I'm using, other times it may be 2, or just a single source. I
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Tim Pierce
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Re: SpotCollector - colours for Special Callsigns
Spot Collector Configuration, go to the Spot Database Display tab Don WB6BEE
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wb6bee
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SpotCollector - colours for Special Callsigns
Can I modify the default colour of the Special Callsigns? How and where? Many thanks Carlo? IK2RPE
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Carlo - IK2RPE
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
Celos, tengo celos. I am so jealous here. I went and bought a full size desktop from Best buy and it cost about twice as much. It has only 16 gig of ram too. It works fine but I think you have way
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Gilbert Baron W0MN
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
Ph right on, Dave! I originally needed a large DB because I was chasing -- HARD! -- that last Zone 22. After completing WAZ, I'm now working 6 meters a little, where I probably won't ever have a DB
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Earl Needham
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
I see the thread has morphed a little, but the core is graphics cards (pun intended). On a related note I just this week upgraded my computer from an HP Z620 workstation (it is still housing my RAID
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KK1L Ron
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
+ AA6YQ comments below + Setting an application's affinity is indeed transient; it is reset when the application is restarted, and when Windows is rebooted. There are several Windows automation tools
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Dave AA6YQ
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Re: Windows 11 24 H2
+ AA6YQ comments below + Perplexity's report, with citations of its sources, is appended below. 73, Dave, AA6YQ Windows 11 24H2 offers performance improvements and new features but has faced
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Dave AA6YQ
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
+ AA6YQ comments below + A few years after we designed the Nova 2 minicomputer, my long-time accomplice Mike Druke and I were walking with our wives along the boardwalk of a beach town on Cape Code.
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Dave AA6YQ
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
+ AA6YQ comments below + The user decides - how many cores to purchase - how many cores to assign to each application + The Windows Task Manager displays each core's utilization, so a determined user
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Dave AA6YQ
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
Thanks for the info, Dave. I understand to go into Windows Task Manager, Details tab, and Set Affinity to accomplish this. I am finding, that when Spot Collector is terminated and restarted, I have to
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Earl Needham
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Re: Windows 11 24 H2
OK thanks. 73, Bob KB4CL Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2025 10:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DXLab] Windows 11 24 H2 Here you can find a bug report from a couple weeks ago.
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Bob Main
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Re: Windows 11 24 H2
Here you can find a bug report from a couple weeks ago. https://www.zdnet.com/article/10-pesky-windows-11-24h2-bugs-still-haunting-pcs-despite-several-patches/ personally I have been using it without
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KA9JAC
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Windows 11 24 H2
Do you know if 24 H2 ever got straightened out? I remember a few months ago that it was one update you DID NOT want to install. I'm asking because a friend of mine has the home edition of Windows 11
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Bob Main
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
Dave, I shared your explanation with ND0B (whom I was on zoom with) and he used one of your computers while attending NDSU in the 1970's . (North Dakota State University). The corp you worked for
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Hasan Schiers N0AN
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
Nice explanation but does the user have any part in this or is it all I the coding and the hardware in use? If the user has any part in this then how does the user accomplish it? It sounds like a user
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Gilbert Baron W0MN
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
+ AA6YQ comments below + The terms threads and cores refer to different aspects of a CPU's functionality. *Threads* A thread is a sequence of instructions that a CPU executes. Threads are managed by
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Dave AA6YQ
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
Oh my, I just realized the difference in cores and threads. I was thinking threads, as in giving giving three THREADS to Spot Collector. Is it instead three cores / six threads? Thanks, Earl / KD5XB
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Earl Needham
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
+ AA6YQ comments below + If you're going to assign 3 cores to SpotCollector and 1 core to PropView and the VOACAP engine, then I suggest assigning your other DXLab applications to a 5th core, assuming
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Dave AA6YQ
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