For the record, the fit and finish of the Orion is as good as any radio I've owned. It's extremely well done. One thing I really like about the control arrangement, is that there are NO analog contro
The tuning knobs do not "Wobble". There is a slight degree of eccentricity on mine -- but very slight. I have confirmed that it is not the encoders or the shafts. So it may be the tolerance on the sh
1. The tuning knobs are weighted, have variable drag adjustment, and are NOT (let me repeat that for emphasis .. NOT) cheap plastic. 2. Tuning "feel" on the Orion is excellent. The knobs (both of the
Not much. The beauty of the arrangment is that our input on control "features" can always be taken into account and added. T-T already added the x10 feature on tuning rate. And they do seem to listen
I have to admit, I've never bought a radio based on it's "font". I wonder how the dynamic range varies between Helvetica and Garamond ..... Part of the problem is that squinting at a bit map on a com
No rose colored glasses, and I looked all through the box for some, too. Nope, there weren't any in there. I don't recall a missing line -- did see that in the web shot, but have not noticed it (no r
That's really too bad. And speaking of geeks, I still carry a slide rule in my Palm Pilot enabled briefcase. "3.2" is generally a more meaningful answer than 3.21423242325342, especially when "2.1" a
I've read all the posts and I can't possibly keep a radio that must have, according to postings on this, the T-T list, many deal-killer problems. I guess I just don't know enough about this stuff to
It seems less likely that something went west .. or south, that it does that perhaps there is some set of conditions (AGC setting for example) that is different, or noise characteristics or something
I don't know quite how to describe what I mean by "apparent noise". What I observe is that at narrow bandwidths, turning on NR increases the overall volume level of the noise, and changes it's chara
Like the Icom rep said -- it it costs more it surely must be better. (Cough). Based on what I've seen/heard/read so far, the answer is that no one really knows yet (not even the Icom reps, who proba
I was playing around and noticed also that my dial reading was about 30 Hz low at 10 Mhz after an all day warm up. So I decided to do the adjustment on the TCXO frequency. Frequency adjustment was p
I started using the technique suggested in an earlier email .. matching audio tones between USB and LSB. It occurred to me there's a simpler method. 1. Set the radio to WWV (10, 15, 20 -- the higher
That's true, but there are good legal limit amps that run full bore all day long on 65 watts drive or less. And there are other advantages to having the station run on 13.8VDC with a reasonable curr
It's a 1/8" plug on the back, and a 1/4" plug on the front. Tip - dot, ring - dash, sleeve - common. 1 phone, 1 key. The phones MUST be stereo. Speaker connection is a standard 1/4" mono plug on the
Been several requests for pictures of Orions in the shack. Here are two -- you can see that the Orion insists that it be kept in good company. http://www.globeking.com/misc/orion1.jpg http://www.glob
Yes, Id say that not having "true" FSK is a good reason to walk away from what is probably the best radio in ham radio. Makes sense to me -- so does AFSK. Perhaps keyed AFSK (to take your FSK key li
I don't understand the issue here. (A) FSK -- meaning you electrically shift the frequency of one of the RF generators (analog/digital) in the radio will produce an RF output signal IDENTICAL to (B)