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What SD Users say

W2UDT
"SD's best feature is its support of the major European contests like SAC, REF, PACC, and ARI etc. SD has them all! " NCJ

MW5EPA
"Afte going over to Writelog a while back, I've decided to return. Something about SD.. I'm used to it & I'm faster using it. "

VA3PI
"... it performed flawlessly (SDI)".

N4UH
"I used SD for the IARU HF World Championship, and had a great time with it."

ON4RU
".. another success with SD: First place in FD both CW and SSB."

W4BAA
"After 62 years as a radio ham this is the first time that I have logged with other than a pen and paper and it was a new and exhilarating experience". (SDI)

HB9AGA
"this is the program I always wanted to write for myself".

G3ZEM
"I have been absolutely delighted with SD".

KB0C
"(SD) is just great, so easy to use, yet versatile with all the essentials."

G4ODV
"SD is unique, not only in its support of all RSGB and major contests, but also its sheer simplicity of use. I wouldn't be without it."





SD sets the standard for fast, simple logging and editing in the major international contests and in dozens of others worldwide. It is intended for single-op unassisted entries, and runs on any version of Windows, from Win95 to Vista, with a console-mode (text) interface.

Here's the line-up of SD contest loggers.

    SD - Most HF Contests, 150 templates supplied.
    SDI - RSGB IOTA Contest
    SDU - UBA Contest
    SDC - RSGB Commonwealth Contest
    SDV - Many VHF Contests
    SDX - DXpeditions & Special Events

SD supports rig control, serial and parallel keying - and integrates with WinKey to eliminate any CW timing issues caused by Windows. For USB to serial interfaces, combined with level converters for rig control and keying, microHAM has everything you'll need.

SD is free and is fully working and unrestricted. It offers instant "full-screen" editing of any QSO in your log. All SD's files, including the log, are ASCII and can be viewed with any text editor.

Following any QSO edit, no matter how complex, SD checks your complete log for consistency, and instantly updates all relevant QSOs.

This includes setting and unsetting dupe and multiplier flags, and updating area codes (zones), and points, in all QSOs as required. The information shown in the Summary Score window is correct at all times. Just try this on any other contest logger - and see the difference for yourself.

SD is the only contest logger to offer the following features, in real-time, as you type individual callsign characters. There's no need to touch another key or memorise Ctrl-This or Alt-That.

  • Dupe checking
  • Country/Band analysis
  • Check Partial by prefix
  • Beam headings
  • Advance flagging of potential multipliers
  • Band/Mode analysis by callsign
  • Linked database display
  • Auto data insert (Zones and area codes)
  • Countries Worked/Wanted by Continent


HF Contests

SD offers direct support for the major international contests, and for most of the other events you're ever likely to try - including

    7QP
    Alabama QSO Party
    All Asia
    All Austria 160m
    ARI
    ARI 40/80m
    ARI Sezioni
    Arkansas QSO Party
    ARRL 10m
    ARRL DX
    ARRL 160
    ARRL Field Day
    Asia Pacific Sprint
    Baltic
    BCC QSO Party
    California QSO Party
    CIS DX
    Croatian CW
    CQ WW
    CQ WPX
    CQ 160
    CQ-M
    DARC 10m
    DARC Field Day
    DARC XMAS
    Delaware QSO Party
    DXColombia
    Estonia Open HF
    EU HF Championship
    EU Sprint
    Florida QSO Party
    FOC Marathon
    GACW WWSA
    Georgia QSO Party
    Helvetia Contest
    Holyland Contest
    Hungarian DX
    IARU HF
    Illinois QSO Party
    IRTS 80m Counties
    IRTS CW Field Day
    JIDX
    Keymens Club of Japan
    King of Spain
    Latvia Independence Day
    LZ DX
    LZ Open
    Marconi Memorial
    Michigan QSO Party
    Mid Atlantic QSO Party
    NAQP
    NEQP
    Nebraska QSO Party
    New Jersey QSO Party
    NRAU Baltic
    NRRL Fylkestest
    Oceania
    Ohio QSO Party
    OK-OM
    Oklahoma QSO Party
    Ontario QSO Party
    PACC
    Portugal Day
    PGA - Poland
    RAC Canada Day
    RAC Winter Contest
    RDA Contest
    REF
    RSGB 1.8 MHz
    RSGB 21/28 MHz
    RSGB AFS
    RSGB CC
    RSGB Field Day
    RSGB Low Power Field Day
    RSGB RoPoCo
    Russian DX
    SAC
    Salmon Run
    Seanet
    SEEAC
    SPDX
    Stew Perry Topband
    TOEC WW Grid
    UBA 80m Spring
    UBA FD CW
    UBA FD SSB
    UBA ON Contest
    UBA Winter
    Ukranian DX
    USKA Field Day
    Venezuela Independence Day
    WAE
    WAG
    YO DX
    YU DX
    YU HF Cup
    Yuri Gagarin DX

and lots more . . . (151 templates and 122 multiplier reference files supplied).

Install SD Install SD - 737 kb

Install SDU Install SDU - 583 kb

Install SDC Install SDC - 571 kb

      Soapbox comments about SDC for 2007

IOTA Contest

SDI is recommended in the RSGB's IOTA Contest Rules, and is the only logger dedicated to this contest. No other logger compares for SO unassisted entries. SDI has been the choice of most of the winners, and entrants, since the first IOTA contest in July 1993.

SDI has always been more popular than any other IOTA logger. Here are the stats for 2006.

To do well in IOTA, you must work island stations because they're worth 5 times as many points. SDI sets the standard for instantly showing your band/mode status for island stations, and highlighting multiplier slots.

Other loggers can't do this! Without exception, they're general-purpose contest loggers, with too much baggage and compromises from supporting other contests. IOTA is special - it needs a dedicated logger.

SDI identifies country and call-area, as you type individual callsign letters, and give you a real-time analysis of IOTA islands worked and wanted (if any) for that country or call-area - for the current band and mode. When the country is an IOTA island with a single reference, SDI auto-fills the reference.

SDI gives you a worked/wanted analysis for all bands and modes when you type an IOTA reference in the callsign field - there's no need to touch another key or remember function keys or multiple keystrokes.

SDI is ready for the next IOTA Contest in July 2008

Install SDI Install SDI - 583 kb



IOTA Contest Results

2007 : 2006 : 2005 : 2004 : 2003 : 2002 : 2001 : 2000 : 1999 : 1998 : 1997

Soapbox comments about SDI for 2006 : 2005

Results Booklet (PDF) :
2001


DXpeditions

SDX (SD for DXpeditions) is a DXpedition and Special Event logger rather than a contest logger. It supports SSB and CW operation on all 10 bands from 6 to 160 metres, and is similar to SD in giving a real-time country/band/mode analysis as you type callsign characters - without the need to touch any other key.

SDX also offers real-time prefix checking, dupe checking, and beam headings. It supports Super Check Partial, serial and parallel keying, rig control, PTT and band outputs using standard files and interfaces.

SDX is free and unrestricted. SDXCHECK is the associated post-event program to create ADIF or text logs for integration with your station log.

Install SDX Install SDX - 550 kb


VHF Contests

SDV (SD for VHF) is free. No other contest logger can correctly track district, country and locator square multipliers in RSGB and other VHF contests in the UK and Ireland.

SDV is fully working and unrestricted.

Install SDV Install SDV - 567 kb



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