I guess I am not up to par on the Orion mystique.
I turn on my Orion ( original style) using 1.372 and in a contest I just
push buttons and twist knobs till it works best for me. I do have some semi
severe hearing loss and by the end of the day on ssb I have the bw around 2400
or a bit less, and the pbt at usually just -10 or -20 I set the tx at 2700
or 2850 and low end roll off at 150 or 160 speech processor at 5 or 6 mic at
30-35 and run it all to the alpha 87a.
I don't consciously set the Orion there, but at the end of a couple hours
of contesting this is what works.
I do some CW work occasionally ( I have 1.8k and 500 filters in ) and
usually run the cw end at BW of 300 or 400 and the tone is set at 700. I do
some
psk31 and on rtty I set the bw to like 500 and pbt to around 1500. works for
me.
I suppose I may be doing this all wrong ( I play with the agc, , and set the
rf gain at 65 or 70 and the audio level up, ) but it works for me. I find
that settings like this make the folks in a contest sound like they are all
setting 5 kcs apart and just waiting for me in search and pounce. in a run mode
I open the ssb BW up a little for hearing folks off frequency a bit.
for dx I do what ever I need to hear them best. I am amazed that between
the Orion, alpha and steppir or gap Voyager, depending on band that I can
work
"esp" dx consistently and with great satisfaction.
so I don't understand how the dsp works ( and really don't care) I use the
radio to do what I need. I have 8 years in the air force in ecectronic
counter measures, so I know which end of the soldering iron to hold, but I
only
build now and then and don't feel like studying to play radio, so I really
just
"use " the radio.
I don't know if this makes me an appliance operator, ( I have built heath
kits in the past, like the 2 m HT they used to sell) but the eyes don't work
so well and the hands shake a bit so SMT is just difficult and not fun.
I guess I understand most of what the radio does, and I have 8 other hf
rigs, and probably 9 or 10 ht's and 8 or 9 mobiles, among other assorted junk.
I
am enjoying " MY HAM RADIO" experience, and I guess that is all that really
matters.
( first licensed in 1978 at the fcc office in San Francisco) so I am an
official extra light eligible for membership in the Quarter century club..
YMMV
tom N6AJR
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