[IRCA] TPs for Oct 6: Excellent, but $%#! Conputers!

["John H. Bryant" <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 %&*(($%*# computer wouldn't 
recognize the 313e. I tried it 3 or 4 times and the computer just 
couldn't see the 313e through the USB connection.  After a bit of 
swearing, I began to trouble shoot, sort of in order of seriousness. 
In about 45 minutes of fear and trepidation (and dawn DX rapidly 
going to waste) I'd tried everything that I could think of, including 
reinstalling the software, right over the existing stuff. No luck at 
all. The last thing that I knew to try was to uninstall the software 
completely and do a "clean reinstall." I decided to go downstairs and 
get another cuppa coffee before uninstalling anything; while staring 
at the coffee pot, I realized that the one thing that I hadn't 
tried.... the thing that I should have tried first or second... was 
simply to reboot the ^$*&$^$@! 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.  $@$#@@! 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.    
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