> I guess Larry will be following this and may chime in with some comments :)

I have no idea whats going on with your system, sorry. I do know that the station ID 
length is not the problem. It can be up to 6 characters long.

Regards,
Larry Cochrane

On 7/7/2011 4:50 AM, Dave Nelson wrote:
> Greetings Steve
>
>      OK   I will work my way through those suggestions. and let you know  the
> results of each part  :)
>
>      ok  initially I just quickly did the files from somewhere else check
> I grabbed a bunck of PSN files from my main computer and transferred them
> to the puter running SDR  and also a copy of WQ
> (NOTE....  these files open no prob with the copy of WQ on the main puter
> always have ...never been a problem)
> They like my own files will NOT open on the SDR puter  WQ displays  the same
> " Invalid Quake File (bad header check) " message
> I tried the files in the SDR events folder, and the WQ data folder ... same
> problem
>
> I guess Larry will be following this and may chime in with some comments :)
>
> question.....
> Is there a problem running SDR and WQ on the same puter ??
> does any one else do that ?
>
> Ah hah !!   moment of truth ....  transferred my file onto my main puter via
> a memory stick   and guess what ?!!   it opens.
>
> so what's the problem with WQ on the SDR puter.
> Unless someone tells me I cant have WQ and SDR running on the same puter
> I will try reinstalling WQ
>
> cheers
> Dave
>
>
> At 09:12 PM 7/07/2011, you wrote:
>>Hi DAVE, This does not sound good, you might want to send a note to
>>Larry along with a sample dataset. I'm not sure what the " Invalid Quake
>>File (bad header check) " message is. Here is a thought, go to Larry's
>>site and get an event file and open it in Winquake to see if it opens
>>without an error. I also have one more question, will Winquake open any
>>dataset from your current WinSDR configuration or only the ones you
>>created with Replay? Invalid to me says there might be a space or
>>special char in one of the systems setting of WinSDR causing Winquake to
>>crash. I would check to see if everything is lowercase and alpha/numeric
>>without spaces or special characters. My next idea will take a little
>>work but you might also try feeding channel #1 via jumper (channe#l
>>input to the hardware board) to also feed channel #2 on the hardware
>>board and then create channel #2 in WinSDR keeping the default settings
>>and testing to see if you can create valid datasets.
>>
>>One other thing you might try, to just get the system going, if it is
>>still not going, is to create a new subdirectory and then change the
>>system files settings in WinSDR to use the new directory. Then fire up
>>WinSDR and let it run for a few hours and trigger a few events by
>>walking near the seismograph. Once you have a few hours of data in the
>>new systems files test to see if Winquake works and if you can generate
>>a replay event file that does work. In the past I've had WinSDR mess-up
>>the system data files and at times completely stop being able to upload
>>Gif image files or even just stop without warning. This has worked to
>>get everything reset. My last though, go into WinSDR and find logging
>>and turn logging on. Once it is started open the log file and you can
>>view the messages as they are created. This might also give you a clue
>>as to what the system is doing as it is running.
>>
>>Regards, Steve Hammond PSN San Jose.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: psnlist-request@..............
>>[mailto:psnlist-request@............... On Behalf Of Dave Nelson
>>Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 11:59 PM
>>To: psnlist@..............
>>Subject: RE: event saving in winquake
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>ok I changed the station ID to  xxxxxxx.syz.psn  (instead of
>>xxxxxxx.sydz.psn ) within WinSDR and did another event save  it saved it
>>under the new file name still wont load into WQ  and WQ still doesnt see
>>the file within the events
>>folder
>>
>>Dave
>>
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