If your band scope produces peaks that air near saturation, you have a problem
that would not be corrected easily by an adjustment.
I have an O2 with the latest firmware and it does not have this issue.
First, do both reset processes and see what happens.
Gary
> On Jun 20, 2018, at 8:08 PM, jon greenwood via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
> wrote:
>
> I have 2 Orion's 565 and 566. Both have the latest firmware updates V3. The
> 566 has the rx366 sub rx. The Orion has the standard sub rx. The Hardware
> noise blanker on the Orion works great. On the Orion 2 when the hardware
> noise blanker is on it messes up the rx in the main. Strong nearby signals
> even 20k away can modulate noise. I have read up on this in the Yahoo group
> and seems like it may have been due to the latest firmware update. Others
> comments seem to indicate that not to be true. One thing I notice is the RX
> on the Orion2 seems to be very strong. The sweep function is almost useless
> as everything reads high across the "bandscope" On my Orion the sweep is much
> lower even to the point of being lower than one would think it should be but
> the signals then are well above the noise and easy to pick out. It is almost
> like the rx in the Orion 2 is to "hot" thus causing the noise blanker issue.
> Same antenna's same settings etc.
>
> Is anyone aware of an alignment procedure to adjust or set the receive signal
> strength in the Orion2? That would be my only gripe on these great rigs is
> the lack of a good service manual. Or any other thoughts on a trouble
> shooting path.
>
> Jon n8mus
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