Is a good radio, and fun, good luck with getting one.. tom N6AJR Well put Tom . Sounds to me like the Orion is a pretty neat radio , and very forgiving . You can play around with it , explore it's fe
Perhaps the reason you could not get it to work in 45 minutes is that some one had screwed it up royaly before you got to it, and maybe it needed to go to an operating capable set up before you got t
And throw in probably up to a week for ups there and another week for ups back , 1 day on the bench for trouble shooting, a couple days or a week to get the parts from the vendor, a day or two to rep
Someone listen on 3.532.6mhz and tell me if you hear something strange. I have a tone that goes from 3.531.5 up to about 3.534.9 snd the auto notch on the orion takes it out.. so it is a transmited s
But there in lies the problem, in the current configuration, this "marginal product" is about twicce a good as most of the rigs from the "big three" and if you compare it to stuff like the ft-840 or
Well, I guess you told me.. by golly, my point is not the fact whether it has a first dit hickup or not the point I was trying to make is on a scale of 1 to 100 this is a 0 or maybe a 1 but it sounds
I am currently using one with my orion and it seems to work pretty well, but I primarily work ssb and don't know how it does in full QSK. I use mine straight through on the RLY line with a shielded a
I use mine straight through on the RLY line with a shielded audio cable ( rca ends) and no problems yet, except to remember to turn the bandswitch when changing bands. I don't use the alc line, and h
(Or, this may be a chicken / egg problem? Which came first? - That's a rhetorical question - i.e., it doesn't require an answer on the reflector!) 73, Duane
There is in fact a little know compatibility issue between TenTec and Butternut products. Due to the faster than usual QSK, the RF leaving the rig tends to achieve higher velocity than inferior rigs.
I remember back in tech school, (1966) in the air force at Biloxi, MS, we had classified "sets" so we would go in the classroom and first pull the bulb out of a couple of signal generators so they lo
Is the R9624 Studio One microphone CLOSE OUT $59.00 still available? If so, I would like to purchase it and would appreicate instructions on how to do this. Thanks! Scott K4VWK -- Original Message --
it sounds like water in the coax.. But take it a step at a time, put a dummy load at the antenna and transmit, if its stable, ya broke the antenna ( dropping the whip inside to far can break the wire
I think it sounds pretty good, one of the few radios I have that is nnot hooked to an external speaker,, BUT I can make it sound like crap if I grab the wrong Knob..:) tom N6AJR I agree. The receive
as a new owner of an orion, I have been following some discussions on this reflector.... I see some of the dissatifaction some folks have for the radio. I maybe want to bring up a simple point. regar