- 21. Re: [TenTec] 100 Hz DSP CW filter response with Orion I V2.056 (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:17:52 -0500
- Sinisa, Thanks for this data. Among other things, it confirms that "100 Hz" BW isn't exactly knife-edge filtering -- as you'd expect from 199 taps and 14 kHz IF, I suppose. A number that might also b
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-03/msg00532.html (11,241 bytes)
- 22. Re: [TenTec] Great Contest Radio? (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:29:32 -0500
- Now we are getting somewhere! In the April QST, someone at the FCC is quoted as saying that hams are communicators first and radio operators second. In other words, you don't always need the radio pa
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-03/msg00617.html (9,292 bytes)
- 23. Re: [TenTec] Orion Sub Receiver BW (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:59:33 -0500
- Besides, the DSP workload happens in the DSP (Sharc) processors, not the Dragonball control processor. So, fancy filtering, NR, etc. should not impact the user control response, at least to first ord
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-03/msg00854.html (11,146 bytes)
- 24. Re: [TenTec] Orion Sub Receiver BW (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:37:35 -0500
- Lin, To clarify my earlier post, the processing delay of the DSP does not exactly indicate the amount of "work" the DSP has to do (although it is related). An N-tap filter has to wait N sample times
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-03/msg00884.html (11,725 bytes)
- 25. [TenTec] Orion & SDR1000 thoughts (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:04:41 -0500
- Hello, I am a "long time" Orion owner and follower of things related to SDRs. Lately, I've started to monitor the FlexRadio discussion lists relating to the SDR1000. At first glance, the SDR open sou
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-03/msg01295.html (8,976 bytes)
- 26. Re: [TenTec] Orion & SDR1000 thoughts (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:29:22 -0500
- Dan, I said it, and I meant it: it's not a troll. The two products are different, as you note, and they are aimed at different kinds of users/hams for different applications. I doubt that there are v
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-03/msg01305.html (12,193 bytes)
- 27. Re: [TenTec] Open-Wire Feeders (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 14:34:24 -0500
- It's not only a matter of electrical degrees. There are at least two other reasons to keep spacing moderate at any frequency: 1. The more spread out the lines are, the more susceptible they are to co
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg00184.html (9,481 bytes)
- 28. Re: [TenTec] Orion II Reviews?-Follow up (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 14:47:13 -0500
- I would be really interested to know what TT's regression (and beta) testing involves. Odd that one of the primary (?) operating modes stops working and they don't notice. Maybe it's my imagination,
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg00185.html (10,079 bytes)
- 29. [TenTec] Orion firmware statistics (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 18:03:49 -0500
- Here is a graph showing the documented TT firmware versions for Orion and Orion 2 versus months since introduction: http://www.aa6e.net/images/oristats.gif . Versions for the first Orion were running
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg00237.html (8,115 bytes)
- 30. Re: [TenTec] Orion firmware statistics and drift info (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 22:54:40 -0500
- Circulating air will reduce the temperature rise and the total warmup drift (and maybe prolong your rig's life), but you will still have drift from changes in ambient temperature. The "better" way is
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg00244.html (14,238 bytes)
- 31. Re: [TenTec] Orion firmware statistics and drift info (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:36:05 -0500
- The Orion 1/2 gives you 1 Hz setting precision, so 10 Hz is easy to measure. This is very handy if you actually want to measure frequencies to high accuracy/precision. See my 2005 ARRL FMT result for
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg00258.html (8,144 bytes)
- 32. Re: [TenTec] S meter and RF gain (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 21:04:41 -0500
- Some day I'd like to see both: an S (dBm) meter that tells the signal level at the antenna connector, unaffected by attenuators, preamps, and IF gain AND an indicator (on the same scale) that shows t
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg00305.html (7,886 bytes)
- 33. Re: [TenTec] Ten Tec User Net Activity (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:48:25 -0500
- I checked in once. Good news, bad news. Good: the Orion can pull weak ham sigs out from between the broadcasters. Bad: It's still hard to get through on 100W -- no fun on the East Coast! Why can't th
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg00358.html (8,321 bytes)
- 34. Re: [TenTec] 2054 BETA (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:40:28 -0500
- A lot of the V1 firmware distributions sure seemed like "betas", but now TT is being more forthright. Lots of software products these days never seem to make it out of beta status. :-) I am intereste
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg00487.html (9,200 bytes)
- 35. Re: [TenTec] Orion monitor in v2 beta (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:05:56 -0500
- Chuck, The SP is really strange in this firmware release. The SP seems to work by ramping up the audio gain until whatever audio you have (background noise etc) starts to fully modulate the rig to 10
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg00667.html (9,556 bytes)
- 36. Re: [TenTec] Orion II manual / firmware for 565 / 8P with Orion II (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:11:15 -0500
- Schematics are not published yet for the Orion II, are they? I don't see them. In any case, the same clock oscillator seems to be used for the Master and Sub CODEC in the Orion 1. I have not noticed
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg00686.html (10,726 bytes)
- 37. Re: [TenTec] [Orion] Orion I firmware (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:06:46 -0500
- I don't think I've seen an "inherent flaw" in v2. From all that has been said, v2 has a much better technical base than v1 did. (Of course, you can still run v1 forever if you want.) And v2 has to wo
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg00886.html (10,336 bytes)
- 38. Re: [TenTec] QST AD (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:32:26 -0500
- Software performance (stability, bugs, etc.) is not easy to capture in lab tests, or even in casual operating. (Too many modes) Traditional RF specs are a lot easier to check. Look & feel, personalit
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg01019.html (9,698 bytes)
- 39. Re: [TenTec] My Orion Page (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:05:24 -0500
- John, You have a point. Despite the drift, my old TS-520S was quite successful running PSK31 after warmup. That's about as demanding a mode as any on HF. So why worry about a few Hz on the Orion? Sta
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg01085.html (10,325 bytes)
- 40. Re: [TenTec] Frequency Stability (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:06:01 -0500
- That's not bad for a free-running VFO. I used my '520S for nearly 30 years of very satisfactory hamming, including PSK31 and CW. Zero firmware updates or system crashes! It is still my backup rig in
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg01170.html (8,232 bytes)
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