diff --git a/gui/daemon.js b/gui/daemon.js
index 6fbf1088..82649f52 100644
--- a/gui/daemon.js
+++ b/gui/daemon.js
@@ -34,23 +34,41 @@ function connectDAEMON() {
 
 daemon.on('connect', function(data) {
     console.log('DAEMON connection established')
+    let Data = {
+        daemon_connection: daemon.readyState,
+    };
+    ipcRenderer.send('request-update-daemon-connection', Data);
+
 })
 
 daemon.on('error', function(data) {
     console.log('DAEMON connection error');
     setTimeout(connectDAEMON, 2000)
+    let Data = {
+        daemon_connection: daemon.readyState,
+    };
+    ipcRenderer.send('request-update-daemon-connection', Data);
+
 });
 
 /*
 client.on('close', function(data) {
 	console.log(' TNC connection closed');
     setTimeout(connectTNC, 2000)
+    let Data = {
+        daemon_connection: daemon.readyState,
+    };
+    ipcRenderer.send('request-update-daemon-connection', Data);
 });
 */
 
 daemon.on('end', function(data) {
     console.log('DAEMON connection ended');
     setTimeout(connectDAEMON, 2000)
+    let Data = {
+        daemon_connection: daemon.readyState,
+    };
+    ipcRenderer.send('request-update-daemon-connection', Data);
 });
 
 //exports.writeCommand = function(command){
diff --git a/gui/preload-main.js b/gui/preload-main.js
index 1abcb8fd..df59a415 100644
--- a/gui/preload-main.js
+++ b/gui/preload-main.js
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ var configPath = path.join(configFolder, 'config.json')
 const config = require(configPath);
 
 // START INTERVALL COMMAND EXECUTION FOR STATES
-setInterval(daemon.getDaemonState, 1000)
+//setInterval(daemon.getDaemonState, 1000)
 //setInterval(sock.getTncState, 150)
 setInterval(sock.getRxBuffer, 1000)
 setInterval(sock.getMsgRxBuffer, 1000)
diff --git a/tnc/daemon.py b/tnc/daemon.py
index 0f53c106..88f74352 100644
--- a/tnc/daemon.py
+++ b/tnc/daemon.py
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ import sock
 
 class DAEMON():
     def __init__(self):
+        
+        # load crc engine    
+        self.crc_algorithm = crcengine.new('crc16-ccitt-false')  # load crc8 library
+        
         self.daemon_queue = sock.DAEMON_QUEUE
         update_audio_devices = threading.Thread(target=self.update_audio_devices, name="UPDATE_AUDIO_DEVICES")
         update_audio_devices.start()
@@ -53,7 +57,7 @@ class DAEMON():
             for port, desc, hwid in ports:
             
                 # calculate hex of hwid if we have unique names
-                crc_hwid = crc_algorithm(bytes(hwid, encoding='utf-8'))
+                crc_hwid = self.crc_algorithm(bytes(hwid, encoding='utf-8'))
                 crc_hwid = crc_hwid.to_bytes(2, byteorder='big')
                 crc_hwid = crc_hwid.hex()
                 description = desc + ' [' + crc_hwid + ']'
diff --git a/tnc/modem.py b/tnc/modem.py
index b708ac44..360dca74 100644
--- a/tnc/modem.py
+++ b/tnc/modem.py
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ class RF():
         self.AUDIO_CHUNKS = 48 #8 * (self.AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE_RX/self.MODEM_SAMPLE_RATE) #48
         self.AUDIO_CHANNELS = 1
         
+        # locking state for mod out so buffer will be filled before we can use it
+        # https://github.com/DJ2LS/FreeDATA/issues/127
+        # https://github.com/DJ2LS/FreeDATA/issues/99
+        self.mod_out_locked = True
+        
         # make sure our resampler will work
         assert (self.AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE_RX / self.MODEM_SAMPLE_RATE) == codec2.api.FDMDV_OS_48
         
@@ -215,7 +220,7 @@ class RF():
         else:
             static.BUFFER_OVERFLOW_COUNTER[2] += 1
         
-        if self.modoutqueue.empty():
+        if self.modoutqueue.empty() or self.mod_out_locked:
             data_out48k = bytes(self.AUDIO_FRAMES_PER_BUFFER_TX*2)
             self.fft_data = bytes(x)
         else:
@@ -300,6 +305,9 @@ class RF():
             x = np.frombuffer(txbuffer, dtype=np.int16)
             txbuffer_48k = self.resampler.resample8_to_48(x)
 
+            # explicitly lock our usage of mod_out_queue
+            self.mod_out_locked = True
+            
             # split modualted audio to chunks
             #https://newbedev.com/how-to-split-a-byte-string-into-separate-bytes-in-python
             txbuffer_48k = bytes(txbuffer_48k)
@@ -314,12 +322,18 @@ class RF():
                     structlog.get_logger("structlog").debug("[TNC] mod out shorter than audio buffer", delta=len(delta))
                 self.modoutqueue.put(c)
 
+        # Release our mod_out_lock so we can use the queue 
+        self.mod_out_locked = False
+
         # maybe we need to toggle PTT before craeting modulation because of queue processing
         #static.PTT_STATE = self.hamlib.set_ptt(True)
         while not self.modoutqueue.empty():
             pass
         static.PTT_STATE = self.hamlib.set_ptt(False)
-      
+        
+        # after processing we want to set the locking state back to true to be prepared for next transmission
+        self.mod_out_locked = True
+        
         self.c_lib.freedv_close(freedv)
         self.modem_transmit_queue.task_done()
         static.TRANSMITTING = False
diff --git a/tnc/sock.py b/tnc/sock.py
index 6f84796c..a43c99e1 100644
--- a/tnc/sock.py
+++ b/tnc/sock.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class ThreadedTCPRequestHandler(socketserver.StreamRequestHandler):
             data += chunk
             
             if chunk == b'':
-                print("connection broken. Closing...")
+                #print("connection broken. Closing...")
                 self.connection_alive = False
                 
             if data.startswith(b'{"type"') and data.endswith(b'}\n'):