After owning my Orion for a bit more than a month, I find that most of my orion problems are caused by me, but I still enjoy it. I and learning some interesting techniques playing with it. I am amaze
The buttons are on one large panel assembly... sort of a sandwitch. You can buy a replacement for the entire assembly from Ten-Tec for $20+ or so. I did last year. Getting at that panel requires that
Can any one tell me what is in this message sent by KG6TT a bit ago to cause him to be moderated on this reflector. It has happened and I for one don't understand the "violation" here ,.. and ideas t
My first experience with a dongle was in the first little plug in modem for my good old IBM 760 think pad. I put a pcimca moden into the side of the computer, and stuck the dongle into the modem and
a fan dipole will work fine on multuiple bands, is cheep easy to build and can be fed with either coax or ladder line.. a few examples here... tom N6AJR http://www.ku4ay.net/dipole.html http://www.qs
I have had a couple of Isotron antenna and they are basicall a coil and a capicitor at the end of the feed line, they do work, poorly but are about a nickle better than a dummy load. if that is all y
http://cheponis.com/Orion_DSP_BG_Fail.jpg I am a new owner too, bought mine used and never saw anything like that. looks like something broke inside. to do the master reset, did you hold the "main rx
If I recall, they charge over $500 for that 40M vertical. Yikes! We need a homebrew version. How difficult/expensive could it be to fashion something similar? 73, Barry N1EU Have you looked at the st
I have a cushcraft d-4 on the ground, It is a 10-40 m rotatable dipole. I am curious of how this would work as a vertical. I think I would have to tie some nylon guys to the top to stabilize it, lets
Well on an impulse I bought a working Hercules 444 over the weekend with the intent of using it with either my Corsair II station, my Paragon, or should I be immensely fortunate, my Omni-VI+. This mo
Ok, so I am really happy now, after years of use of the "yaekencom" radios I finally bought an Orion about 2 months ago, all the filters, autotune and such. I also bought a als -600to go with it, as
I have the best of all worlds, retired, divorced ( over 10 years,),and enough income to play. I want a radio, I buy what I want, when I want, and don't ask any one for permission. I help other hams,
What do you make of this? <http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-05-143A1.doc> <http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-05-143A1.pdf> <http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_pub
Perhaps it is just the FCC realizing that the rest of the world is dropping the requirement for cw as a requirement for HF so they are stepping in line. I agree that the need for CW as a testing "sep
along with freedom of speech comes another item, responsibility for what is said. If I walk into a bar and exersize my freedom of speech by calling some guy's wife UGLY, He may end up beating the sno
I SO here is an interesting idea, can some one make a list of settings, so the Orion is set the same as a IC-756 or an old TS-930, or a FT-847 , you know, all the settings and bandwidths etc so it so