[SD-User] SD in the FOC Marathon

Richard W L Limebear Richard at g3rwl.demon.co.uk
Tue Feb 10 18:10:52 EST 2004


Paul, Gang

> > 1) I noticed that whenever I tried to go back and correct
> > a call sign that was entered incorrectly, the 'points' field
> > changed to zero.
> 
> I'll update SD so that the points won't change.

I had to do this too (there were some anomalies in FOC.LST). The points didn't 
change in mine - but I'm still using SD 9.97

> I can see that it would be useful to extract the callsign
> when you type a matching membership number (followed by
> Enter) - I'll add that, on the assumption that the callsign
> will be the last field in the .LST record - as it normally is
> when the membership number is the first.  This will override
> the QSY facility (on a matching number).

This will be very useful - thanks

> If you type a number (or anything else) that you need to
> clear from the callsign field, Esc or Minus are the preferred
> options.

Not a problem - but I happened to notice that Esc sometimes didnt clear the
rx serial field (which will get over-written anyway) - but Minus did.

73
Richard W L Limebear G3RWL
g3rwl at amsat.org
FOC # 1188

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