No, this is not a Sterba curtain. Sterba curtains are substantially different in their feed arrangements and have poorer performance characteristics that the driven dipole curtain in the photograph.
I'm scratching my head over this as well, Mark. Let me know what you come up with. My station will be 2 Orions and 2 amplifiers. Eventually I intend to use the PTT line (and amplifier keyline) signal
No, I don't know what these units are. I don't have my radio yet, so can't play with it. Should be relatively easy to measure with a scope. QSK delay, if I recall the discussion earlier, adjusts the
All of these impairments are additive. If you listen to a signal transmitted by a radio with lots of phase noise, and your receive introduces more phase noise, the problem is compounded. So cleaning
Paul -- The start of the detailed technical report on the Orion states that ARRL's test equipment calibration is checked annually to a NIST reference. The same test equipment is used as for other tra
Bill -- I would be surprised if the built-in 1000 Hz filter has only 4 poles. I would have expected it to have 8 poles, like the 2.4 kHz filter. This would be interesting to clarify. -- Eric K3NA sus
Another solution would be to have a .wav file on one's computer with the two tones recorded on it. This would be especially useful for contesters who use soundcards as voice keyers, and who pass thei
People have forgotten that the FT-1000 had a steep learning curve when it first came out. The necessity to dig through some of the menus to set up the rig for tuning rates and such meant a lot of con
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Did you replace this with another filter in your Orion? 500 Hz 8 Pole Ladder Filter, 9 MHz (for 562 / 563 / 564 narrow position / 565; 546) Factory packaging and instructions. Plug-in for Argosy I &
Hi Joe -- While I'm always happy to see people take initiative, perhaps those who organized this new Yahoo group about the Orion missed some important points of the earlier discussion... and therefor
Yes, one can fill in bogus information ... but there is one piece of non-bogus information: your e-mail address! The bottom line is that MANY people ARE concerned about Yahoo's privacy policy, and th
Hi Bill -- Yes I agree with you in some respects. I just don't want to go through the added effort of reading webpage-based email as I already have quite a bit of email workload. But, more importantl
[Forwarded with permission from the author.] Eric: There is another reason to NOT have a Yahoo group.... namely, guys like me. I do NOT subscribe to the TT relfector, but I do skim through the archiv
Based on the earlier discussion, it seems apparent that more than a few people would like a separate e-mail list devoted to the Orion transceiver. It also seems apparent that more than a few people p
Just checking a few things out first. They should be public now. -- Eric K3NoviceAdministrator Were the archives of the new contesting.com Orion list intentionally made private? Is there any reason t
Hi Bill -- Is this separate Orion reflector on Yahoo? Is it worth while surrendering one's privacy to Yahoo to subscribe? How do you like your headphones, now that you've had them a few months? -- Er
Hi Bill -- Yahoo's privacy policy has improved over the last couple of years. But this is part of Yahoo's privacy statement that I object to: "Yahoo! does not rent, sell, or share personal informatio
You are correct: it USED to be the case in the past. But apparently is no longer the case... Eric, While I was aware of Yahoo!'s policies on personal information, I am surprised to learn that you mus
(Maybe someone can copy this to the reflectors I am not subscribed to for me.) While I appreciate Earl's efforts to handle a very neglected (but valid) consideration, I'd like to urge everyone to use