If TT is listening (watching). Here's my suggestion. I'm sure it could be
done with just a firmware change, but the labelling on the front panel would
have to be changed for the purists.
Instead of having Hi Cut and Low Cut share a knob and BW and PBT share a
knob, it would make more sense if Hi Cut and BW shared a knob and Low Cut
and PBT shared a knob, so that you could have Hi Cut and Low Cut knobs
active at the same time, or PBT and BW. Generally, when you want to adjust
BW, you are more likely to want to adjust PBT. Similarly, when you want to
adjust Hi Cut, you may also want to adjust Low Cut. Maybe TT figured that
having the related controls on the same knob, thus made more sense, but I'd
rather not have to be pushing the knob all the time to change the function.
Another nice touch would be to have the radio automatically default to the
knobs as Hi Cut and Low Cut or to BW and PBT (assuming the functions are
reaaranged as suggested above), depending on the mode. Normally in SSB, you
would find Hi Cut and Low Cut more convenient for eliminating adjacent QRM.
With CW, you're most likely just going to adjust the BW to eliminate QRM and
PBT to tune in non zero beat signals.
Just my suggestions.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "N4PY" <n4py@qvssoftware.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Filter Controls
> If you are having interference on the low side of an SSB signal, you
simply
> adjust LoCut to improve the filtering. If you have interference on the
high
> side, you simply adjust HiCut. It is just an easier way to adjust out
> interference in one control instead of two.
>
> Carl Moreschi N4PY
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t@comcast.net>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 11:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Filter Controls
>
>
> > > Perhaps someone who really likes CUT can tell me what it will
> > > do
> > > that BW/PBT cannot do. Surely I'm missing something.
> >
> > You're not really missing something.
> >
> > Hi cut just reduces bandwidth. So in a sense it is redundant.
> >
> > Low cut reduces bandwith AND adjusts PBT (as Carl pointed out) to
> > effectively maintain the upper response edge in a contstant place. This
> > slides the lower edge (relative to mode) up to eliminate interference on
> > the low side. It is true that PBT can do the same thing, but that also
> > slides the upper edge of the response curve which may increase
> > interference from the other side in the bargain.
> >
> > Different strokes ... but I feel certain that if this equivalent to VBT
or
> Twin
> > Passband Tuning or whatever control du jour is being pitched wasn't
> > there, there would be someone who'd be asking where it was :-)
> >
> > Grant/NQ5T
> >
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