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Re: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A: Not Ready for Prime Time!

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A: Not Ready for Prime Time!
From: "John Simon" <jrsimon@ozemail.com.au>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:26:01 +1000
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I've done the same, one large sig and my S-meter needle locked hard over and 
had to switch off to recover.
I've gone back to 2.039 to get the marks on top of the screen sweep.  It 
looks a better radio too.

          John de VK2XGJ
Money talks,  Chocolate sings!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Rsoifer@aol.com>
To: <ronc@sonic.net>; <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A: Not Ready for Prime Time!


> Ron and others,
>
> Many thanks for your fine work.  After playing with 2.042A overnight, 
> I've
> re-installed 2.041XT and will await T-T's next try.
>
> 73 Ray W2RS
>
>
> In a message dated 4/14/2010 2:45:00 A.M. GMT Standard Time, 
> ronc@sonic.net
> writes:
>
> I keep  hoping that it's something simple like a hiccup while I was
> flashing
> the  new firmware, so I'm interested if anyone else finds the same things
> I'm
> finding in the behavior.
>
> Ron  N6IE
> www.N6IE.com
>
> -----  Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gene Henderson"  <wb9hla@comcast.net>
> To: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>;  "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
> <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent:  Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A:  Not Ready for Prime Time!
>
>
>> Ron,
>> Looks like someone  forgot to install this on a radio and see if it
> worked.
>> I agree with  you
>> not even close to Prime Time
>> Gene WB9HLA
>>
>>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ron Castro"  <ronc@sonic.net>
>> To: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>;  "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
>>  <tentec@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010  21:50
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A: Not Ready for Prime  Time!
>>
>>
>>> Addendum to my post:  on problem #1,  I'm referring to the RX audio.  TX
>>> audio (other than more  drive needed and processor problem) still sounds
>>> broadcast  quality.
>>>
>>>             Ron   N6IE
>>>        www.N6IE.com
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>  From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
>>> To:  <tentec@contesting.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 6:41  PM
>>> Subject: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A: Not Ready for Prime  Time!
>>>
>>>
>>>> Here are a list of problems I  found right off with the v. 2.042A, even
>>>> after doing a battery  reset and two master resets and memory clear:
>>>>  1.. Very  noticeable distortion on all audio.  Sounds like overdrive
> in
>>>> IF
>>>> or DSP section.
>>>>   2.. AGC hang in AF AGC.  S-meter goes up and never comes down!  At
> same
>>>> time, RF gain goes down and does not come back up.   If you manually
> turn
>>>> the RF Gain all the way to 0, then back  up to 100, the radio is
>>>> essentially muted.  This will not  happen if the "AGC Hang" setting is
> 0,
>>>> but then distortion is  really bad.
>>>>  3.. NR does not work in AF AGC mode.   Does seem to work well in RF 
>>>> AGC
>>>> mode.
>>>>   4.. Much more audio drive needed on AUX input for SSB.  It looks 
>>>> like
>>>> about 10 dB more.
>>>>  5.. AM carrier=  1.25 Watts max!  That's at 100% PWR setting.
>>>>  6.. FM  carrier= 6.4 Watts max.
>>>>  7.. SSB Speech Processor gives  only around 50 Watts max peak output.
>>>> You
>>>> can  get it up to 100 Watts when you crank it to "way beyond 
>>>> reasonable
>>>> distortion".
>>>>  8.. Could not  find any sort of S-Meter calibration
>>>> Here are the good points  so far:
>>>>  1.. Side tone is louder and spot level is  too.
>>>>  2.. Waterfall display is much  improved.
>>>>  3.. Difference in frequency between Main and  Sub improved, but still
>>>> not
>>>> "phase  locked".  I detect about 0.1 Hz differential which should make
> it
>>>> fine for true diversity antenna work.
>>>>   4.. In RF AGC mode, the NR really does seem improved, although it's
>>>> hard
>>>> to tell with the audio distortion  mentioned above.
>>>> So that's the good, the bad and the ugly of  it!  I'm QSYing back to v.
>>>> 2.039d, the last one that  worked right...
>>>>
>>>>         Ron  N6IE
>>>>        www.N6IE.com
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