[UK-CONTEST] SD CW keying

[Peter Hobbs]

Chris,

Not sure how you are set up there, but this is how it works with me on SD 
V13.29:

Enable autosend (using the asterisk key) - RU'n' appears under the call 
field - exchange starts automatically after you've entered the first 'n' 
characters of the call.  Esc stops sending instantly and leaves you at the 
call field.  After autosend has started, you can continue to enter the 
remaining characters (they appear in the call field) which are added 
automatically to your current exchange, as long as you get them in before 
the exchange has finished.  The position of the cursor is immaterial in this 
sequence.

If you miss the boat, one Tab back to the call field allows you to complete 
the call entry while the other station is sending, then Enter to take you 
silently to the number field.  When you've entered the received number, a 
further Enter sends the full call followed by TU (default).  Of course, if 
you didn't need to add letters, or otherwise edit the call, the final Enter 
just sends TU.

As Paul indicated earlier, all this only happens when you're actually keying 
out to a radio, it doesn't work when you're monitoring on your sound card in 
test mode.

73, Peter G3LET

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Tran ZL1CT" <zl1ct at gm7v.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 12:26 AM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] SD CW keying


> Hello all
>
> This thread has narrowed down so much I've renamed it (which will let Ian
> WVG - and everyone else probably - hit 'delete' even faster)
>
> With a callsign entered in the callsign field, I press 'Enter' and the 
> call
> + exchange sending process starts - a blue box saying 'CW keyer, Esc to
> Quit' appears - I press 'Esc' and it does not 'Quit' until after it has 
> sent
> the whole callsign. This fails my test 1 criteria, which WL, WT and MM all
> pass, so there is no need to proceed to any other 'tests'.  (Test 2 - the
> cursor disappears from the callsign field so I don't know how it is 
> possible
> to correct the callsign as it is being sent ?)
>
> We've had this discussion before - surprisingly the archives of this
> uk-contest reflector do not seem to be 'searchable archives' like many of
> the other contesting.com hosted reflectors ?
>
> Moving forward, please call ZL4A if you hear us this weekend.
>
> 73
> Chris
> ZL1CT
>
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