- 21. Re: [TenTec] K2/100, Orion review (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 14:37:42 -0500
- How about a ham who invested $3500 in Orion, and is unable to invest a similar amount in a "compatible" amplifier? On the other hand, the real cost (if any) of providing (ore rathet preserving) PTT f
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-12/msg01124.html (9,490 bytes)
- 22. Re: [TenTec] PTT vs QSK? (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 14:41:17 -0500
- Sure it would. On the other hand, a manufacturer that forces you to buy a new amplifer so that he can save 5 cents on PTT is probably missing something. 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN _____________________
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-12/msg01125.html (9,197 bytes)
- 23. Re: [TenTec] TT Orion: Also SEMI-BK-IN possible ? (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:06:33 -0500
- Or eat cakes :-) Jack, we are talking about 5-cent effort on part of TenTec, vs. $multiK-effort on part of many customers. If RX/TX control is done by CPU, even those 5 cents can be saved, unless the
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-12/msg01149.html (8,393 bytes)
- 24. Re: [TenTec] TT Orion: Also SEMI-BK-IN possible ? (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 00:40:50 -0500
- Enable PTT functionality for CW, just like all the other manufacturers have been doing for decades. It may range from zero cents (firmware change) to a resistor/diode/wire or so. Nothing more than th
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-12/msg01183.html (11,169 bytes)
- 25. Re: [TenTec] TT Orion: Also SEMI-BK-IN possible ? (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 07:53:09 -0500
- Yes, that was the point. Yes, that could save TenTec 5 cents :-) 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.contes
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-12/msg01190.html (10,126 bytes)
- 26. Re: [TenTec] How We Buy Things (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:35:41 -0500
- Various patches are possible, but it is somewhat discomforting to know that a simple thing like this one has to be patched on a otherwise fine radio. But if TenTec says that CW PTT cannot be provide
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-12/msg01359.html (8,204 bytes)
- 27. Re: [TenTec] Error in Ten-Tec Orion (565) Review? (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 22:28:13 -0500
- Looks like it is. The waveform is typical of the breed. No, it cannot be so, because it would require Orion to cease transmitting before the key is released. 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN ________________
- /archives//html/TenTec/2003-12/msg01378.html (7,348 bytes)
- 28. Re: [TenTec] Sloper (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:21:19 -0500
- If there has to be vertical wire, it would be much wiser NOT to ground it. RF power forced into soil produces no signal. So called "half-slopper" antenna is a dipole (as most antennas are) deformed s
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-01/msg00045.html (7,559 bytes)
- 29. Re: [TenTec] Sloper (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:41:21 -0500
- Hi Rick, OK, let's see if you would agree with physics :-) It is a simple fact that pushing RF power into soil does not produce useful radiation, although some other goals may be achieved, like "perf
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-01/msg00052.html (13,141 bytes)
- 30. Re: [TenTec] Sloper (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 10:54:07 -0500
- You can run one dipole leg vertical, and other horizontal, or zig-zag, or in any other fashion. Resonant frequency will change slightly, but that's easy to correct. Look at "Low-Band DXing from a Sma
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-01/msg00074.html (7,826 bytes)
- 31. Re: [TenTec] Sloper (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 15:45:41 -0500
- Nice example of what I did recommend to Ken. Call it any name you like, I just see a good old trapped dipile, distorted to fit the space. Adding the second "radial" is also a good idea. Nice to see
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-01/msg00086.html (7,956 bytes)
- 32. Re: [TenTec] Orion Filter Controls (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:20:18 -0500
- Why Menu 8-9, and not the SHIFT knob??? 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-01/msg00149.html (9,046 bytes)
- 33. Re: [TenTec] ORION Contesters: HELP PLEASE (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:33:55 -0500
- Rick, not strictly a "Con", but three-tone close-in intermodulation audio/video recordings may be of interest, as they occur with levels as low as S9+20 dB: http://www.yt6a.com/download/ 73, Sinisa Y
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-01/msg00152.html (8,536 bytes)
- 34. Re: [TenTec] Orion Filter Controls (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:38:01 -0500
- Well, I find "energy" and "intelligibility" quite interrelated, i.e. one cannot have the later without the former. True :-) Should be so, although I wouldn't advance lower cutoff any further, unless
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-01/msg00153.html (8,697 bytes)
- 35. Re: [TenTec] ORION Contesters: HELP PLEASE (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:02:52 -0500
- It gets worse with 3 signals. If the first filter is 15 kHz wide, then almost half of the 7 MHz CW band passes through, gets amplified by ~17 dB and reaches the second, mixer which is much weaker tha
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-01/msg00157.html (9,509 bytes)
- 36. Re: [TenTec] Orion Filter Controls (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:11:54 -0500
- When using Inrad 1.8 kHz SSB filter I have to move SHIFT approximately 1 division, otherwise audio response starts above 500 Hz. And the direction is not the same for USB and LSB :-( But with 2400 Hz
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-01/msg00159.html (8,938 bytes)
- 37. Re: [TenTec] Orion Filter Controls (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:53:29 -0500
- It depends on the transmitted signal. If nothing is transmitted below 500 Hz, then there is no point in receving below 500 Hz :-) Let's forget QRM, because it may come from all "directions". Let's al
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-01/msg00166.html (11,052 bytes)
- 38. Re: [TenTec] Hi Cut / Lo Cut - Orion (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:15:39 -0500
- I couldn't agree more, especially for SSB. On CW I prefer to switch filters and move RIT :-) Given that a filter has only two edges, using four controls is beyond reason. Probably a marketing trick,
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-01/msg00168.html (8,724 bytes)
- 39. Re: [TenTec] Hi Cut / Lo Cut - Orion (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:26:38 -0500
- Give it a second thought: just move filter edges and show a non-moving carrier mark (no PBT mark). 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-01/msg00170.html (8,594 bytes)
- 40. Re: [TenTec] Orion Filter Controls (score: 1)
- Author: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:36:12 -0500
- It's simple: what is good for Inrad 1800 Hz filter, isn't good for stock 2400 Hz filter, and vice versa. If one is using both filters, it's easier to correct via SHIFT than via menu. It's not bad to
- /archives//html/TenTec/2004-01/msg00172.html (8,378 bytes)
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