I think the issue of "paying for upgrades" is an interesting one. I would be happy to pay for firmware upgrades, either on an individual basis - like it / buy it - or on an annual subscription basis.
daclark56 said: "Yes, it confirms and then over the next few days it actually seem that my email traffic increases from Ten Tec." -- If this is in fact the case, and you really want to stop the email
I recently got a copy of the ARRL 2007 Amateur Radio Handbook for reference. I was skimming the book when I ran into Chapter 16 - DSP and Software Radio Design - written by Doug Smith (KF6DX). Doug w
Jerry Volpe (KG6TT) said: -- "We discussed the A-D converters in the Orion and that it was their practical sampling limit.... or max range of ability.... that made it important to keep the Preamp IN.
Ben, like many other recent DSP based rigs, the Orion/Orion II V2 code has been "work in progress" for some time. There was a point in the firmware releases where, in my opinion, the V2 speech proces
Mike (w2AJI) said: -- " Even with the compressor set at 7, the O2 will produce about 20 to 25 watts average output at 70 watts PEP" "The audio in the O2, even with the compressor set at 7 is very goo
Bob, as with all kinds of statements about DSP based radios, it really depends on the release of the firmware. -- Gary Barbour said: "The V1 firmware contained an AF AGC in addition to the IF AGC. Th
Resent Due to Reflector Problems -- Bob (K4TAX) said: "Perhaps we are not being clear in out terminology between AVC and AGC. In case you thought so, they aren't the same. Today's digital radios don'
Kim (N5OP) said "I found that the increments of threshold adjustment get very coarse as the threshold is increased." -- Kim, The jumps in the "threshold setting" are not as "course" as you might thin
Scott said: "The manual notch is outside of the receiver's AGC loop. The result is that notching a strong CW signal leaves the desired weak CW signal in the mud because the AGC voltage is derived fro
ANT 1 selected ANT 2 unselected - 42.3 dB ANT 2 selected ANT 1 unselected - 51.4 dB (from ARRL Expanded Test Report on Orion page 15)" -- Interestingly the Orion II ARRL measurements were not as good
The Orion's S-meter calibration certainly isn't anything to "write home about," but it is "representative" of the distant stations signal strength. Running V1.373b5 I get the following readings using
Try without formating :-) The Orion's S-meter calibration certainly isn't anything to "write home about," but it is "representative" of the distant stations signal strength. Running V1.373b5 I get th
As a frequent audiophool who has owned many sets of headphones .. It isn't the audio system's fault that one headset requires a high audio setting and another one doesn't require a setting much highe
Tonno - ES5TV said "But I find it extremely difficult to handle CW pile up as it is so much more difficult to read out single calls from pile up. They all sound the same and form a mass of signals. I
I recently sent my Orion back to Ten-Tec with a problem I had been chasing for over 6 months. I had been running V2.062a while trying to find the cause of losing the main receiver and transmitter whe
Bob - K4TAX said: "On item that I've discovered with the current Omni VII on the desk, thus I no longer have the Orion II available, is that the RF Gain must be run lower, actually much lower, than o
NQ5T said: "Seriously, there are still some things all of us would like to see "improved", depending or whether your point of view is that something is broken, or "it doesn't work the way I want it t
K8VF said: "Mark hold the Menu button in and that will give you the 565 startup screen. The bottom line will say "V2 Mod Confirmed" if the mod has been done. " -- That display (V2 Mod Confirmed) is o
The only real issue I have seen with V1.373b5 stability is the occasional loss of the subreceiver audio. Because of the otherwise exceptional performance of this firmware, I started trying to find a