[UK-CONTEST] SD CW keying

[Paul O'Kane]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Tran ZL1CT" <zl1ct at gm7v.com>

- with reference to SD

> 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.

I'll say it again.  SD works exactly as I have described.
I know better than to make extravagant claims for it.

I've had no other reports of Esc not interrupting keying.
Please confirm that keying is active.  If you can hear CW
from the PC's speaker, keying is not active.

With ESM disabled (to keep things simple) here's what I see
when using SD's internal keyer (btw - Winkey is preferred
and recommended). The "blue box" is a message field that
appears only when using SD's internal keyer.

1. Type a callsign, press Enter:
   The message field appears, and the Callsign/Exchange message starts.

2. Type Esc:
   keying stops instantly - and the message field disappears.

3. Start again by typing a call (say W3A), Press Enter.
   The message starts
   Type BCC - BCC is appended to the call (and W3ABCC displayed)
   Hit the delete key once.
   W3ABC is displayed and that's what the keyer sends - if you
   stay ahead of it.

As Chris described, the cursor does disappear from the callsign
field while the call is sent, but it's not exactly a show-stopper.
This doesn't happen with WinKey.

> This fails my test 1 criteria, which WL, WT and MM all
> pass, so there is no need to proceed to any other 'tests'.

I'd still like a comparison, for WL WT and WM, for the
18 SD features I listed a couple of days ago.  Most of
them are directly relevant to CQWW - they do not depend
on the CW keyer.

> We've had this discussion before . . .

Please give me your phone number and a convenient time to
call and we'll soon resolve this problem.  Another option
is to continue on sd-user at contesting.com.

73,
Paul EI5DI