ATC goes on strike!

I get lots of cases where ATC suddenly falls silent and stops responding to me.   Sometimes I am successful at clicking Connect and Connect again to reconnect.   Many times that does not work.   I have sent you email with a log of my most recent flight where I had some success getting comms going again but later was unable to.

The other night,  I had filed a FP, cleared it with CrDr,  got taxi instructions from Ground,  taxied to the HS and was handed off to tower.   I contacted tower:

November Seven Whiskey Alpha, ready for departure runway 27L.   Silence!   I reconnected.   Still silence.   I tried the opposite runway just for the heck of it:

November Seven Whiskey Alpha, ready for departure runway 09R.   

He immediately came back saying "The active runway is 27L."   However, when I repeated with the correct runway,  again silence.   I then tried using the phrase builder (?+) and constructed the exact phrase.   Silence!

I have the log for the above (not the same one I sent you in email).   I decided to send you my most recent attempts so as not to confuse things too much.   I can send the earlier one if you wish.

It's not like I haven't been doing this for a long time; usually with great success.  Seems lately I'm having quite the streak of bad luck.  I can see where I can confuse ATC and they don't respond but to have them absolutely going silent I don't understand.

Hope you can help me.

Thanks

-mark

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Here are the relevant lines from the log file for the above events:

Recognized Speech: November Seven Whiskey Alpha Ready for Takeoff Zero Departure Runway Two Seven Left 03:05:19
UnInterruptAudio in OnPilotEndSpeaking 08/13/2020 03:05:19
AudioInterrupts: 0 in UnInterruptAudio 03:05:19
 WaveOutPlayer Playing in UnInterruptAudio 03:05:19
Stopped Listening
HandleTakeoffRequest 03:05:19
Error in HandleTakeoffRequest. 08/13/2020 03:05:19
System.OverflowException: Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow.
   at P2A_2018.simAIAcft.get_Altitude()
   at P2A_2018.simAIAcft.OnFinal(Single Distance, Runway Rwy, Int32 MaxAGL)
   at P2A_2018.modSimGlobal.cdf846dd189143a8205ac25ab908bfac7.ccf0ab565e08e2d48e549ed676790b47c(simAIAcft cff0df7af1722ca3c91ea0d5229f39abd)
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectListIterator`2.MoveNext()
   at System.Collections.Generic.List`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 collection)
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToList[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
   at P2A_2018.modSimGlobal.UpdateAITrafficOnFinal(Runway Rwy)
   at P2A_2018.P2AStateMachine.IsFinalClear(Runway Rwy)
   at P2A_2018.Controller.c31ff64bb66dd4122a3a8ed2072900314(String& c10d14a58376e8a5fedf6f0955109c8c6, SpeechInteraction c9408508583fe6860a9cb8bcb2e3c1245, String& c2d61cf92c662496fc273eb7fc03570f3)
InterruptAudio in OnPilotSpeaking 08/13/2020 03:05:27
AudioInterrupts: 1 in InterruptAudio 03:05:27
 WaveOutPlayer Paused in InterruptAudio 03:05:27

Edited August 13, 20205 yr by snomhf
adding log info