That's what is so great about the hobby. That's clearly an individual choice .. but from a non-RTTY/*TOR fanatic's perpective, FSK is a control technique -- not a mode. The guy on the other end won'
It is sort of an interesting discussion. Let me bring it back to the Orion so it's a little more on topic. The Orion allows you to disable either the mic level input or the line level input, or run t
Much of what you have indicated has to do with personal preference. The whole long thing on tuning rate is baffling. You can get a nice roughly 5Khz per rev with encoder rate set to fast, and step at
Oops .. it helps to get it right. I was wrong about the 5 Khz per revolution. It's 2.5 Khz. Ah, well. It's where I used to keep my 781 set -- feels right :-) Grant
I am very familiar with the Icom's version of Twin Passband Tuning. The radio I sold to purchase the Orion was a 781 I've owned since 1989. I had IRCI/INRAD 2.1 Khz crystal filters in the IF's which
Couldn't agree more. At least it is possible to update this radio as issues are uncovered, as opposed to waiting for the next new one that must be purchased. Misguided? I have spent many many hours
This all seems to have been missed in discussions concerning the color of the display, ad nauseum on tuning step rates, and whether the Orion is "milspec"or not (all vastly important of course). The
Well, you dig your own hole in the ground .. All anyone has to do if you find a bug or have a suggestion for an improvement is to send an email to ditsnbits@tentec.com. A long rant on the list may ma
I'm on travel this week. And my Orion is at home. No power, no antenna. All alone in a dark radio room. Bummer. Doggone, I wish that thing would fit in my suitcase!!! Grant/NQ5T
Do you own one? I would presume from your comments that you've never had your hands on one and haven't even read much. There is very little this radio has in common with the "JA" rigs. It is NOT 1.5
Ah, yes .. the technical stuff is all true. But AM is AM, very neighborly, and all the better for it :-) And the good news is that Ten-Tec has made the Orion a mighty fine sounding AM radio with exc
In addition to the suggestion to use a low value of processing to brighten the audio, remember that you can also adjust the low frequency rolloff of SSB audio in the SSB menu. If you find the Studio
Hi, Jim .. At the risk of stating the obvious, I'd bet a phone call to Ten-Tec would get you the answer you need. If you don't have it by this weekend, I'd be happy to put a scope on the Orion and me
At the risk of raising a dead subject ... I read all of the posts about QC and other issues with wonder and amusement as they were happening. I pulled all of my V'plex keys out this afternoon. "Origi
Not only has it begun, but what to my wondering eyes should appear in my inbox today but a UPS shipping notice from TenTec with an estimated delivery date of March 27. It is a good day, indeed :-) !
Well, it's here. Going to take a while to get used to this. But it plays well right out of the box, and is reasonably intuitive -- at least once I figured out that the "concentric" knobs are there fo
Finally got around to pluggin in the mic and attempting to transmit on mine. Doggone RS-35M power supply goes nuts at full transmitter power, dropping voltage to the point that the screen flashes lik