John, FWIW I have mine set for 100% weighting and 5 ms rise/fall. The QSK delay setting depends upon the switching time of your linear, if you're using one. With no amp, or a good QSK amp, you can us
I am thinking about getting a US Interface Navigator, and have two questions: 1. Does anyone have experience using one with an Orion II? I see from their web site that it supports the Orion, but says
I read somewhere that the signal comes from the German national weather service, DWD, and it looks like FSK on the scope, but with MMTTY I am unable to decode it. And yes, the amateur service is seco
We don't have a lot of BC stations out here in the desert, but I'm about 5 miles from a ham who will go anonymous because he puts out several times as much power on 160 as W1AW. The O2 roofing filter
I'm using them with the O2. Sound great, no problems. 73 Ray W2RS _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinf
Tonno, I suspect that you will get as many answers as there are responders, because everyone hears differently. On 160 I currently use BW of 100 Hz, the 300 Hz roofing filter, slow AGC and RF gain of
Oh, I forgot to mention that I have NR = 7, ATT out and both NBs off. 73, Ray W2RS _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.co
Hi Mike, No, not that I can recall. What's his call? Ray _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
Nope. That's a new one on me. _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
Jerry, Thank you! Last night on 160, I tried your suggestion of turning on the preamp and reducing the RF gain further (to 66 rather than my usual 78-84 with the preamp off). It did help. I am using
Interesting web site. I like his "sounds from space." BTW, we'll be away next week. 73 Ray _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.conte
I'm curious as to what AGC and NR settings you guys are using. On 160 (CW of course) I find a slow AGC action to be very helpful. I'm currently using Hang 0.3s, Decay 10 dB/s, Threshold 9.84 uV and A
Looking at the Sherwood results, one would have to declare a virtual tie between the Orion II and the T-Flex 5000A, since individual radios from the same build would vary at least as much as that. Th
Good point. If TT, Inrad or someone came out with a 200 Hz roofing filter for the O II that similarly outperformed the current 300 Hz filter, I'd buy it, since I usually run the main rx at 100-200 Hz
I would too, and would be willing to give up general coverage to get it (I use my Argonaut V for SW reception anyway). However, I would have no use for decoding-panadaptor support or enhanced compute
Ron, I've had my Orion II for over two years now, and have also tried the FT-1000MP Mk V and several Icom Pro IIIs. They're all good radios, and which is best for you depends, IMHO, on the type of op
Rick et al, My AL-811 has 572Bs in place of the 811As, and no other mods. I have encountered no problems driving it with an Orion II, but have not tried to make it do QSK. I use it mainly on 160, whi
Hi all, While not disagreeing with any of the technical points Jim makes, I simply want to mention that I had a twinlead-fed 80-meter dipole at my old New Jersey QTH. It was supported at each end by
Hi, This is for those Argonaut owners who may be using, or considering, the Tokyo Hy-Power HL-100BDX RF-switched 100W amp. I inadvertently fried my HL-100BDX a few weeks ago while trying to load it i
Shipping from Texas to Saitama, via UPS air, was about $120. USPS would have been cheaper, about $70, but I called the difference "peace of mind." Return shipping via Japanese EMS was JPY 6100 billed