I had a couple and have made a couple more and they are not that much trouble to build. And no, I don't solder DB25's either. Not anymore, anyway. The current demand is small, so I use a ready made 2
Well, if you must have a scientifically approved "color display" have it in red and white, red background and white lettering. While the difference between white on red and black on white is small, i
Chuckle. I do run Carl's Orion program with mine. And the colors are real pretty. They remind me of a box of assorted lollipops, actually. But so far at least Logic does not directly interface with t
Well, I don't know about Orion owners wanting a clique somewhere else. I suspect most Orion owners are too busy operating to post anything about the rig. Besides, superlatives get mighty boring after
Why did I buy an Orion? For two reasons. The first was because I hoped it would live up to both it's billing and to the reputation its predecessors set. Because after trying all the highly touted rig
Well - we Orion owners are in much the same situation as Jim Bridger trying to describe Yellowstone. He finally got tired of being ridiculed so he started telling folks the Yellowstone country was wo
Well, if I may - Krauss passes over it with a casual comment to the effect that "under the best conditions half the signal is lost to the medium and half is delivere to the transmission line." Excuse
My Centurion came without a power plug. I bought a plug at Home Depot to match the shack wiring and it's been working for - 10 years? - something like that. Now, my Titan III came with a plug, and th
Item 1, My secretary turned her radio up as some Congressman was explaining that on one of the talk shows yesterday. Probably the Rush Limbaugh program. It seems the moratorium on taxing internet tra
Well, I have had pretty good luck with Inrad products, but.... First, 2 dB or even 3 dB passband ripple is a lot on paper, and not so much when you listen to the end result. A volume level change of
Back a few firmware updates, I wrote it down but I'm too lazy to look, my Orion quit transmitting and cycling it off and on brought it back to life. I didn't miss much of the ragchew but after that h
Narrowing TX bandwidth depends on the operators voice. One of the hams across town is a good judge of voices and very familiar with my "coffee shop conversation." Experimenting back and forth we find
Well, it's certainly possible to get poor TX audio out of the Orion, but having a fellow within eyeball range - yet far enough away so his rig's not overloaded - critique your audio does help. After
Using the 705 microphone I run my Omni VI's with the processor on, indicator at 9:00, mic gain at 9:00. The locals tell me I sound most natural at those settings. And it does raise the average power
I have been looking at this thread for quite a while, starting with Yuri's 'plaint about Orion's keying and through the "audio" comments. Since we have gotten down to that, I rather suspect the model
Well, MFJ has a couple of keyers that do a pretty good job. I have an MFJ-493 on line at this moment that I could plug the spare keyboard into. And do from time time. Other keyboard keyers I cannot c
While that's a bad start, it sounds as though your Orion may have been through UPS or FEDEX package destruction test and has fallen from one of the upper shelves in the truck and landed hard on the f
ON4UN and I did some on-air speech processing comparing and found there's no appreciable audio distortion even when the Orion's RF SP is set very high. John says he runs his around 5, my audiophile f
Yep, "menus" "other" turn tuning knob to hilite (more like lowlite) "contrast" and turn the multi knob to get whatever contrast ratio you want. If you don't like black on white go on down the other m
As Yuri says, if the software people and the hardware people aren't on the same page you got problems. And if your hardware is done and the software people decide to add a bunch of neat new features