Key Clicks? I was running the Orion at 50 watts putting out 700 watts from an amplifier capable of 1300 so I doubt the clicks were a drive issue. There has been thread on this topic here before and t
Do you also sit backwards in the saddle and ride off the trail? ALC is derived in the AMP and is fed back into the transceiver. (!) Of course it is and you are correct. Since I was backwards in the s
The Orion suffers from serious overshoot when first transmitting. The internal ALC must have a very slow attack. Mark that up as #14 on the list. k4ia Craig "Buck" Clicking away and loving it in: Fre
Is it fair to suggest that the mic element is omni but because of the way it is mounted - in a case with an opening on one side and with sound absorbing material behind it - that it effectively funct
when in reality, a simple change makes it work flawlessly now No, that is not true. I got complaints of key clicks a khz away on an Orion 1 using the latest and greatest software without a keying loo
I thought the QST review was fairly negative. A lot of "damning by slight praise." The overall tone of the review was negative with lots of side remarks about shortcomings: "it does so at the expense
I thought the QST article was really unfair. Most QST reviews are so gooey-gushy positive you have to read between the lines to get a hint of the truth. This article was out of character in that it e
"Why the sudden change in review style for the Orion II? Why so little space devoted to the superb performance aspects of this radio and so much space devoted to a few problem areas?" I agree complet
CW Sidetone on the top of the main display - next to mic gain. The ALC light is always on in CW mode. Can't help you with the amp keying loop as my amp doesn't have that feature. k4ia Craig "Buck" Fr
I noticed my Orion 1 (latest firmware) was sounding awful noisy - lots of band noise in the form of static and low frequency growling. The S meter was always reading high from the noise. Reducing the
DSP magic was not hidden in ver 1.371. It got buried in every version after that. In 1.371 it made the receiver get very quiet - no hiss, no ocean noise. I describe it as "squelch like." When a signa
Does anyone know what change was made in 1.372 that affected the behavior? I suspect they needed to move processor power to other applications to fix them and in so doing gutted the NR. Weren't they
We all howled (myself included I am ashamed to say) when TT announced the end of the Orion I. We watched our resale value plummet. Then, we eagerly awaited the promised version 2 of the software hopi
I had thought intuitively that the wire supplied by TT and the connector on the radio was "wimpy." The wire on my FT-100d is a lot heavier and the connector a lot more substantial. I have had to go i
I have used several different USB > Serial devices: The MicroHam USB>Serial (no longer made) works good with some CW hesitation on rare occasion. I now use it for Rig control on a MarkV Field with a
that is a challenge for the folks who have no slots tho. That was my problem. Computers don't come with lots of extra slots and laptops have none. I would try the USB cable, they are not that expensi
On the road, I use the Mini Paddle from Palm Radio (Germany) but sold here _http://www.mtech.whsites.net/palm/_ (http://www.mtech.whsites.net/palm/) I have it attached on its side with double sided s
I found the hardest part of learning to head copy was to throw away the pencil and stop trying to write everything down. We carry on a normal conversation without writing everything down. We takes no