[SD-User] Rig Control and Manual Band Change

[Joe V31JP]

Hi, Tim.

I run into this, not just with SD, but other programs and it is an issue 
with later WinDoze, Win7 here.

I have a similar set up.  Dumb WinDoze says all these ports are busy, 
NOT!  I go to devises and printers,
select the USB converter and set my port to what I want and disregard 
what they say.  It usually goes
without further issues and it goes.

On 9/3/2012 6:16 AM, Timothy McKnight wrote:
> Using SD v16.00 (I realise that this version, now two days old, is no
> longer supported) for Field Day operations, I decided to set up rig
> control.
>
> Using my wife's laptop running Vista, I installed an FTDI serial to USB
> converter and connected my CT-17 interface between the rig and computer.  I
> could see that the serial converter was assigned to COM30 port.  However,
> SD's PORTS command allows only ports 1 to 24 to be used for rig control.
>  From the laptop's Hardware Manager I saw that ports COM3 to COM29 were 'in
> use,' meaning my only choices were COM1 and COM2.  I then laboriously found
> a way to re-assign the serial converter to COM2.  I changed rig control
> port in SD to 2 but SD wouldn't connect with the rig.  I then re-assigned
> the converter to COM1 and SD rig control to 1 but still SD would not
> connect with the rig.
>
> In frustration I gave up and decided to go with manual band entry on SD.
> Then I found another problem--the same problem I had three months ago with
> SD v15.61.  Sometimes SD would not recognise a manual band-change command
> (entering '20M' or '40M' etc in the callsign field) and remain in the same
> band.  Sometimes I would catch this but sometimes not, so some of my QSOs
> have the wrong band recorded.  At least once, entering '20M' has taken me
> to QSO number 20 without me noticing.  Entering a new callsign overwrote
> the callsign already recorded for QSO number 20--more lost points.
>
> I have been using SD for 5 years now and like many of its features.  It is
> no longer 'free' and yet I seem to have more problems with it than other
> 'free' software that I use.  Is it possible to fix these problems or is it
> just me?
>

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