- 41. Re: [TenTec] [Orion] Orion II Noise Blankers (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:04:41 -0500
- How about actual documentation of the DSP algorithms, for everyone who is interested? Doug Smith wrote up a bunch of this at the beginning (http://www.doug-smith.net/downloads.htm), but there hasn't
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-02/msg01262.html (9,843 bytes)
- 42. Re: [TenTec] ORIONII_INTERNAL_AT_TUNER (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 18:46:17 -0500
- The AT gives you some flexibility. My antennas are resonant, too, but I've been able to stretch them. The 80 M dipole does well on 30 M with the AT, and I even manage the occasional contact on 160 us
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00021.html (8,077 bytes)
- 43. Re: [TenTec] SKN results. (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:00:59 -0500
- I also dived in for my first SKN. Great fun. It was kind of weird running the Orion and talking to a fellow running a Heathkit DX60. Talk about a distinctive signal! A slight chirp and kind of "shimm
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00032.html (8,441 bytes)
- 44. Re: [TenTec] SKN results - Martin AA6E - I almost called you! (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:14:34 -0500
- Hi, Keith, Yes, us "E's" have to hang together. Maybe we need an "echo club" or a "worked all echoes" award? hi It seemed that a lot of people (most?) didn't bother to call CQ SKN. I did, some of the
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00036.html (8,892 bytes)
- 45. [TenTec] Radio Science + QSK = Radar (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 13:20:32 -0500
- When operating QSK at 15-20 wpm, I am running into echoes of my transmissions. These occur on certain azimuth bearings at certain times of day, most often to the SE, which is over water until hitting
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00047.html (9,193 bytes)
- 46. Re: [TenTec] Radio Science + QSK = Radar (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:28:30 -0500
- Joel - I usually think of "scattering" as an incoherent process arising from many small scattering centers (density fluctuations). When you hear a clear echo, the response is fairly coherent (with a
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00054.html (10,682 bytes)
- 47. Re: [TenTec] Radio Science + QSK = Radar (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 00:01:13 -0500
- QSK is very helpful, because you hear the echo after every dit or dah. (It's pretty distracting to hear echoes while sending.) I never heard it with my old non-QSK rig with a slow R/T relay. I don't
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00089.html (11,343 bytes)
- 48. [TenTec] Orion Radar early results (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:02:40 -0500
- I was fooling around on a "dead" 20 M band last night and got some actual radar data. The Orion works fine, except that there is ~28 msec of dead time between end of Tx and beginning of Rx. This is w
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00144.html (7,392 bytes)
- 49. Re: [TenTec] O2 shipments (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:55:36 -0500
- It's probably even better than my old Heathkit AR-3, despite its beautiful copper chassis. 73 Martin AA6E -- martin.ewing@gmail.com http://blog.aa6e.net
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00267.html (9,595 bytes)
- 50. Re: [TenTec] Orion (1) freq reference setting? (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:50:37 -0500
- More at http://blog.aa6e.net/2005/08/orion-frequency-calibration.html and http://blog.aa6e.net/2005/11/orion-recalibrated.html . 73 Martin AA6E -- martin.ewing@gmail.com http://blog.aa6e.net
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00278.html (9,311 bytes)
- 51. Re: [TenTec] Orion II Curiosity (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 22:38:31 -0500
- I agree with the previous comments that good speech (hi fi!) will have a very low average power, but should show occasional peaks to 100W. That is part of why you get the good audio reports with the
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00305.html (9,870 bytes)
- 52. Re: [TenTec] Orion II Curiosity (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:31:30 -0500
- Careful when running high SP - it makes your mic extremely sensitive. If you use the monitor, it's very easy to get audio feedback & oscillation. On the other hand, your average power shoots up to ne
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00315.html (9,273 bytes)
- 53. Re: [TenTec] [Orion] O2 versus Orion (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 11:13:15 -0500
- Does anyone understand this point? I used to think all the Orion (1) frequencies were derived from the TCXO. I've had reasonable luck tweaking the oscillator for better accuracy, as have others. I ty
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00317.html (9,487 bytes)
- 54. [TenTec] Zerobeat & Radio Features - was O2 vs Orion (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:55:42 -0500
- Quite true, the ear is powerful. But I'd like to see a zero beat display - e.g., Lissajous plot of signal vs SPOT or even better, a Fourier transform view that shows phase & freq centered on 0 Hz. Wh
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00391.html (8,784 bytes)
- 55. Re: [TenTec] O2 keyer (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:07:56 -0500
- If the "keyer" is the same in O2 as O, there is no keyer hardware - it's entirely a software (firmware) process, except for some inscrutable Xilinx PLA logic. And that accounts for some artifacts - l
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00455.html (10,346 bytes)
- 56. Re: [TenTec] stable software (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:58:50 -0500
- and occasionally to add some minor features. Once they "get it right", there is little need to issue more revisions, especially if/when a model is discontinued. The Orion is only partly orphaned now
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00472.html (13,546 bytes)
- 57. Re: [TenTec] Time to order QSL cards! (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:00:26 -0500
- Not any more. It's 24 cents a throw, if you can handle it. (It's cheaper still to work DX and use the QSL bureau.) Interesting how some of us want minimal & cheap and others want to make a personal a
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00602.html (8,949 bytes)
- 58. Re: [TenTec] Web Site Down (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:02:07 -0500
- Not so fast. The site is down, if you go beyond the top page. It is failing on MySQL database operations. We've seen this before. One of their servers is probably wedged. (technical programming term)
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00799.html (8,322 bytes)
- 59. Re: [TenTec] Orion II tuning questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:34:42 -0500
- processor running into problems or slowing you down? Orions in the fall of 2003, which was corrected in firmware shortly thereafter. It's not an issue now. -- Even with current firmware, there is so
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00885.html (8,633 bytes)
- 60. Re: [TenTec] Orion II Tuning Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:23:25 -0500
- Yes, besides if you're a QSK person, you're spending a few ms in receive between each code element! The interrupt service argument is good, except that the time to service an interrupt is (or should
- /archives//html/TenTec/2006-01/msg00901.html (10,701 bytes)
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