Hmmm, well I am tempted, but.... I live maybe 11 miles East of the WWVH antenna farm here on Kauai. I suspect the ground wave signals I rcv from them here have pretty good time accuracy, hi. They ar
Oh, what the heck. With a $3900 Ten Tec rcvr (340) and about $3600 in my Orion, whats another $350 for frequency accuracy? Have called the supplier and placed an order for the hp standard, the antenn
Hi, Posted the following about 90 minutes ago, after the radio had been ON for about 90 minutes at that time. For the last hour+, the indicated MixW signal is at 1026.5 Hz. The rig is set to LSB, and
Hi, For those of you as I am, perhaps unable, for whatever reasons, to do close in, fine wire, tiny circuit board component mod type stuff, I have found the following component. Seems to be just what
Aloha Eric, You wrote, in part: Oh my! Eric, this just becomes more and more silly! Yes, I can work pretty well with external perf board; have done that a bit already since my vision went South, hi.
Oops, I messed up; the mod to provide an antenna signal INTO the RX-340 was made inside the Orion -- no changes internal to the 340......guess I was typing to fast, and was becoming more frustrated
Ok, Eric, and thanks so much for spelling all the details out clearly. Helped me a lot, and got me over my "funk". Now busily preparing all this. Yes, I know the box could be used alone; just let it
Aloha, Boy are those guys fast! I ordered one with PS and antenna on Wednesday; I think I phoned to Florida. It was delivered early Friday afternoon! I have my "breakout cable" prepared. Found an old
With regard to the 232 and 422 data formats, I wondered: Eric responded, in part: Believe, with some searching about have uncovered what the 422 system is about: "A pair of wires is used to carry eac
Duane, N9DG, wrote, in part: Ok, I give in, hi. I have added through the "secondary" wires to provide the differential pair scheme from the hp GPS unit's RS422 signal output DB25F. So now have the di
I cannot believe that I missed this piece back in April! I have to believe this is "post-dated", hi. In any case, if I did overlook same, I parroted much the same info in my email posted to this gro
Hi, Well, the Telebyte Model 260 came today, and...... I can't get the PC and the hp box communicating! So till no joy with the hp GPS box. Either my cables are incorrect, or I don't know how to set
Well.............. This thing has been up and running now for a few hours! Solution: Just forget all that 422 to 232 interface stuff, and all the rest! Simply connect as follows: On the PC end, the R
Aloha, Well, the hp Z3801 GPS rcvr is humming along just fine. At this instant it is locked to five satellites, and providing GPS quality frequency standard at 10 MHz (less than 1prt in 10^ -9th, ove
Hi Carl, You wrote, in part: That's wonderful, Carl. Have you checked the serial port fixes in today's new firmware, v. 1.346 ? I checked the filter selection, for example, and seems to operate fine
Mine was shipped from San Marcos, CA. But I think I phoned my order to Florida. My CD disk which came with the unit had corrupted files, and was of no use at all! I downloaded the software via K8CU's
Ok, I have George's (W5YR) method using MixW working just fine; my Orion is high in frequency by about 26 Hz. This is not satisfactory! Especially since now I have my RX-340 "dead on" via the hp GPS
I believe this is a photo of the A10 board, upper left of this inside, bottom view image: http://www.n9vv.com/Images/Orion/orion-inside3.jpg I can see both the #12 coax leaving the A10 card and going
Bill, K6WLM, wrote, in part: Excellent thought, Bill. Will just wait, as you are correct, it is not a real big deal. Only time I notice is during our daily Hawaii Interisland Afternoon net when we ar