Scott don't change the Orion Firmware. If you must change the Firmware then
please make it so I can default back to the present firmware set up.
Ken/w8keb
----- Original Message -----
From: Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales
To: tentec@contesting.com
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 10:10 AM
Subject: [TenTec] An example of changing Orion firmware to meet expectations
of the operator.
At 05:38 PM 7/7/04 -0400, you wrote:
>It worked incorrectly from the beginning,
>i.e. BW was transferred, but PBT wasn't,
>making even the former useless.
>
>
>73,
>
>Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN
No, that is not correct - it was by design. We designed the two receivers,
and the
two VFO's, to be completely independent entities on the Orion. This is
also why there
is no SPLIT button on the transceiver. The A>B, B>A, and A/B buttons were
orignially intended to transfer frequency information ONLY between VFO's.
But.....
See, when we created the Orion, we had the notion that because we were
making the
receivers assignable to either VFO and that they were independent of the
same, that
functions should be seperate for each receiver - because VFO's are not
receivers.
BW and PBT are receiver functions, not VFO functions. Each receiver is
independent
of each VFO - therefore functions on one receiver should not transfer to
the opposite
VFO when changes are made by the user.
However....
We were unsuccessful in explaining this Orion concept to the amateur
community:
-- VFO's are not receivers --
....and as a result have been slowly abandoning the original philosophy
behind the
Orion's VFO/receiver independent design and modifying the firmware to meet the
expectations of the users of the radio. And that's what firmware updates
are for.
Scott Robbins W4PA
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