The Orion recording has more bass and less highs. With a 6 khz filter in the Orion, the audio passband is 3 khz on each side of the carrier. I would expect this to sound bassy and have less highs. Bu
I have one other thought with regards to V1 and V2 on the Orion. On AM, the bandwidth with V1 is actually double the filter size. So a 6 khz filter on V1 is actually 12 khz which is 6 khz each side o
You definitely should not have your tower ground and house ground tied together. Even a nearby lightning strike can cause the two grounds to develop very large voltage differences. Having these tied
The whole question here about grounding is really one of expense. Clearly the best setup is to ground everything together from the tower to the shack with 0 gauge or larger wire. All bonds must prese
The problem with any noise blanker comes down to how they work. When a high noise spike is detected, the audio is blanked for a very short time (like 10 milliseconds). If a strong station comes on th
I had an MFJ 1026 noise cancelor for a while. I found it quite effective at removing various noise sources but there were problems with it. I had an outside noise antenna for it. The noise antenna di
Tentec has this feature in their rx340 for a 10 mhz standard. I wonder how similar it would be for them to make this for the Orion and Orion II. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Drive Bell Mountain
If you combine the pod and Orion with my N4PY Orion control program, the program will allow you to set about 25 different functions for each key on the pod. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Drive B
They are not needed at all. The built in roofing filters plus the excellent DSP do a fine job. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Drive Bell Mountain Hays, NC 28635 -- Original Message -- From: "Phil
I've seen a few of these over the years at hamfests. I believe they were made for the military back in the late 1980's. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Drive Bell Mountain Hays, NC 28635 -- Origin
The "9" to enable keep alive has never worked. Keep alive is enabled at each power on. You send "8" to disable it, but once disabled, it takes a power off to turn it back on. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 L
Yes, they work fine. I am using one. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Drive Bell Mountain Hays, NC 28635 -- Original Message -- From: "John" <brazos@rochester.rr.com> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equ
First of all, by Omni D, the D just means that it has a digital display. An Omni A would mean it had an analog display. There were the original Omni A or Omni D, then there were follow ons with the s
You won't need any spare tubes. The rig is 100% solid state. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Drive Bell Mountain Hays, NC 28635 -- Original Message -- From: "AD5VJ Bob" <rtnmi@sbcglobal.net> To: "
It only works with antenna 1. That is the way it is wired. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Drive Bell Mountain Hays, NC 28635 -- Original Message -- From: "Joerg Vollbrecht" <dl4cf@gmx.de> To: "Di
During WWII, the army taught morse code to lots and lots of soldiers. They gathered a lot of statistics on it. Their conclusion was that everyone could learn morse code to 25 wpm. There were some tha
I'm sorry but I don't buy the analogy. CW is a mode that most of us enjoy. Whether or not it is required for a license is meaningless. I have never operated PSK31 but lots of people enjoy it. PSK31 h
No, there is a vernier with about a 6 to 1 ratio. The dial skirt rotates once per 100 khz, and the knob rotates once per 15 khz or so. The dial skirt can actually be used to measure frequency if the
I use 0.30 hang time on my medium and slow AGC. This fixes the "noisy" AGC problem on weak signals. The default hang on the Orion is 0 hang on all AGC speeds. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Drive
In a DX pileup, the strong gravelly sound of heavy speech processing is essential to break a pileup. Rag chewing vs DX'ing pileups for rare stations require very different audio setups. Carl Moreschi