Amateur Radio Contest Logging Software

Updated - 4th May 2012




What's New
V15.61

IOTA Contest Logger Stats

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SD by EI5DI


Runs on any Windows PC

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    SD - HF Contests, 220 templates supplied.
    SDV - Many VHF Contests - Free

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, on both SSB and CW. SD runs on all versions of Windows, from Win95 to Win7, with a character-based display.

SD is free and unrestricted in the following contests.

    RSGB Commonwealth (BERU)
    CQIR - Ireland Calling
    CW Open
    CWops Mini Tests
    FOC Marathon
    FOC QSO Party
    INORC
    IRTS 80m Counties
    WAPC (China - both sides)

In all other contests, logging is delayed after 30 QSOs if you have not registered.

SD is shareware (try it before you buy it), and the registration fee is 25 euros. When you register, you get a key file by email. The key file, SD.KEY, will never expire, and it activates V15.61 and any later version downloaded within the next 12 months. Any such version will continue to work indefinitely, without restriction, when used with your callsign in the presence of the key file.

SDV is free, and is unrestricted.


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How to install SD

SD supports rig control, serial and parallel keying - and integrates with WinKey to eliminate CW timing issues caused by Windows. microHAM's USB CW Keyer offers WinKey and level converters for rig control in a single package.

SD offers instant "full-screen" editing of any QSO in your log. All SD's files, including the log, are standard ASCII text files 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.

SD also supports DXpedition and Special Event logging (CW and SSB) on the 10 bands from 6m to 160m.

10-10 QSO Parties
7-Area QSO Party
AGB Party
Alabama QSO Party
All Asia
All Austria 160m
ARI
ARI 40/80m
ARI Sezioni
Arkansas QSO Party
ARRL 10m
ARRL 160
ARRL DX
ARRL Field Day
ARRL SS
Asia Pacific Sprint
Baltic
BCC QSO Party
BSCC - Black Sea Cup
California QSO Party
CIS DX
Commonwealth Contest
Croatian CW
CQIR - Ireland Calling
CQMM DX
CQ WW
CQ WPX
CQ 160
CQ-M
CVA DX
CW Open
CWops Mini-CWT
DARC 10m
DARC Field Day
DARC XMAS
Delaware QSO Party
Dnieper Cup
DXColombia
DXpedition Logging
Estonia Open HF
EU HF Championship
EU Sprint
Florida QSO Party
FOC Marathon
FOC QSO Party
GACW WWSA
Georgia QSO Party
Helvetia Contest
Holyland Contest
Hungarian DX
IARU HF
Illinois QSO Party
Indiana QSO Party
INORC
IOTA Contest
IRTS 80m Counties
IRTS CW Field Day
JIDX
JT DX
Keymens Club of Japan
King of Spain
Latvia Ind. Day
LZ DX
LZ Open
Marconi Memorial
Maryland-DC QSO Party
MCC Maritime QSO Party

Michigan QSO Party
Mid Atlantic QSO Party
NAQP
NEQP
Nebraska QSO Party
New Jersey QSO Party
New York QSO Party
NRAU Baltic
NRRL Fylkestest
NRRL Telefonitest
Oceania
Ohio QSO Party
Ohio State Parks
OK-OM
Oklahoma QSO Party
Ontario QSO Party
PACC
PAQP
PGA - Poland
Portugal Day
RAC Canada Day
RAC Winter Contest
RDA Contest
REF
RSGB 1.8 MHz
RSGB 21/28 MHz
RSGB 80m Sprint
RSGB AFS
RSGB CC
RSGB NFD
RSGB SSB Field Day
RSGB LP Field Day
RSGB RoPoCo
Russian DX
SAC
Salmon Run
SCAG Sprint Cup
Seanet
SPDX
Special Events
SSA Manadstest
Stew Perry Topband
SYLRA
TOEC WW Grid
TRCDX
UBA Contest
UBA 80m Spring
UBA FD CW
UBA FD SSB
UBA ON Contest
UBA Winter
Ukranian DX
URE 60th Anniversary
US Counties QSO Party
USKA Field Day
Venezuela Ind. Day
Vermont QSO Party
VK Shires
WAE
WAG
WAPC (both sides)
WIA Remembrance Day
WWPMC
YO DX
YU DX
YU HF Cup
Yuri Gagarin DX


and lots more . . . (220 templates and 165 multiplier reference files supplied).


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Until 2010, SDC was a custom logger for the RSGB Commonwealth Contest. SD now offers all SDC's features in this event.

Soapbox comments about SD for 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007.


IOTA Contest

SDI is recommended in the RSGB's IOTA Contest Rules, and was the only logger dedicated to this contest.

For the first fourteen years of the IOTA contest, from 1993 to 2006 inclusive, SDI was the leading logger. Here are the recent stats.

SD now supports the IOTA contest directly, and includes all the custom features that made SDI so special. To do well in IOTA, you must work island stations because they're worth 5 times as many points as others. SD sets the standard for instantly showing your band/mode status for island stations, for highlighting multiplier slots, and for ease of data entry of island references.

Other loggers can't do this! IOTA is special, it needs the special features that only SD offers.

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

SD 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.

SD is ready now for the next IOTA Contest

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IOTA Contest Results

2011 : 2010 : 2009 : 2008 : 2007 : 2006 : 2005 : 2004 : 2003 : 2002 : 2001 : 2000 : 1999 : 1998 : 1997 : 1996 :

Soapbox comments about SDI for -
2011 : 2010 : 2009 : 2008 : 2007 : 2006 : 2005


DXpeditions

SD supports DXpedition and Special Event logging, on CW and SSB, on all 10 bands from 6 to 160 metres.

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VHF Contests

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

SDV has been updated (December 2010) to support the new rules for RSGB VHF contests with square multipliers - they count only for QSOs with UK stations.

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