I am using a heil headset, but find out that the impedence is not a good match.
So I will try others to see if there is an improvement.
Tnx
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: John Sheeley
To: tentec@contesting.com
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion questions
Creg
You probably already know this. Be sure to only use
stereo headphones I have no audio problems with just a
cheap set of wireless stereo headphones.
de John WB4QDA
--- Greg Fischer <ab7r@direcway.com> wrote:
> OK all.... Now that I have been playing with this
> new rig for about 2 days straight, I have a couple
> questions to see if others perform the same or maybe
> I have something set wrong, which certainly can be
> the case.
>
> 1. I have the 3 optional filters installed. when
> activated and I adjust BW from 380 down to 370 I see
> about an 2 S-unit attenuation. I tried adjusting
> the center freq by finding the roll off about
> equi-distant from the center with the BW control.
> This still does not change the 2 s-unit drop. Is
> this just the way the filter is acting as a roofing
> filter instead of a regular IF filter? Just did not
> think it should do that. The filter CF I adjusted
> was for the 500 hz one.
>
> 2. The NR in CW seems to work in reverse. When I
> activate it, it increases the noise, almost acting
> like a pre-amp. It increases the cw signal and the
> background noise as well. This seems to vary with
> the strength of the signal. The NR works great on
> SSB with the AGC slower. But a fast AGC in CW seems
> like it does not allow the NR DSP enough time to
> process the signal.
>
> 3. When the headphones are plugged in, there is a
> CONSTANT high piched whine, sounds to be about
> 900-1000 hz (guess). Also, when sending CW, the
> audio in the phones sounds like mush, almost like a
> crackling sound when transmitting.
>
> 4. Rare, but occaisional loss of RX for no apparent
> reason. Sometimes it looks like it locks up in low
> level Transmit since the SWR indicator comes on
> replacing the sub rx bargraph, but no output.
>
>
>
> I am sure these are either software refinements or
> maybe I have something set wrong and should/could
> easily be corrected in time (short time I hope).
> Other than these, the rig seems great so far. I
> love the signal handling whichi is why I bought it
> in the first place.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help. BTW... version
> 1.341
>
> Greg
> AB7R
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