I found that GB5CC was not flagged as HQ on any band - I worked Fraser on
3 bands.
Regarding speed, I found that it varied a bit but was registering very slow.
I had to
set the speed at 14 w.p.m. to achieve 25 w.p.m.
Charles - GW3SB
----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Davies G0HDB <g0hdb@amdavies.demon.co.uk>
To: <sd-user@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 1:20 PM
Subject: [SD-User] SDC 10.14 oddities
> Hi folks, I used SDC 10.14 in the Commonwealth Contest this weekend and
> noticed a couple of oddities; I'll be interested to hear if anyone else
has
> observed the same effects.
>
> 1. I worked the HQ station GB5CC on 40, 20 & 15m. SDC flagged up
> the QSOs on 40m and 15m as earning bonuses, but not the 20m
> QSO. I've edited the entry (re-typed the callsign, serial no and
'HQ'),
> to no avail. Any idea why SDC isn't recognising the 20m QSO (which
> was my first contact with GB5CC) for a bonus?
>
> 2. When using the keyer (driving LPT1) I noticed that the speed of the
> Morse was varying slightly when a string of characters was being
> sent. I would estimate that the variation would be of the order of
+/- 3
> or 4 wpm. I didn't notice any variation during the sending of an
> individual character but it's probably not easy to tell at 25wpm.
> Running the CALIBRATE function made no difference. I recall
> having observed the same effect on a release of SD that I never used
> 'in anger' towards the back end of last year (just before CQWW
> CW?), but the effect had gone away in the subsequent release.
> Anyone else observed this effect? My 'radio' PC is based on a
> 100MHz 5x86 CPU with 64M RAM.
>
> --
> 73, Martin G0HDB
>
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