[SD-User] SD 14.29: POLLTIME & LINKTIME settings don't stick

[Bert Hyman]

SD 14.29
Windows XP Pro SP3
Ten-Tec Omni VII

The RAC Winter Contest was my first outing using rig control, so maybe I 
got something wrong.

I started SD, went through the setup for the contest, used the PORTS 
command to set CW through LPT1, COM1 as control for "Radio 1", port 
parameters as 57600/8/N/2.

I set LINKTIME & POLLTIME both to 50, which seemed to work well enough.

When I QUIT and came back later, rig response was very sluggish; the 
LINKTIME and POLLTIME commands showed they'd returned to the defaults of 
500 & 1000 respectively.

This reset to defaults happens each time I quit and re-start SD.

More systematically, I found this:

1. Start SD, set LINKTIME & POLLTIME to 50
2. Examine SD.INI while SD is still active and see that SD_LINKTIME & 
SD_POLLTIME have the desired value of 50.
3. QUIT SD
4. Examine SD.INI and see that SD_LINKTIME & SD_POLLTIME still have the 
desired value of 50.
5. Re-start SD and notice that rig response is sluggish.
6. Examine SD.INI while SD is still active and see that SD_LINKTIME & 
SD_POLLTIME still have the desired value of 50.
7. I did NOT enter the LINKTIME or POLLTIME commands for this test.
8. Quit SD
9. Examine SD.INI and see that SD_LINKTIME & SD_POLLTIME have been reset 
to the default values of 500 & 1000 respectively.
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Bert Hyman	W0RSB	St. Paul, MN	bert at iphouse.com