If you run the AGC in the Orion at 0 hang you can easily make the audio clip by adjusting the decay slope to a very steep rate. Clipping is the definition of non-linearity. 3rd order and 5th order ar
So what's to be scared of? 1. You order the Orion 2. you don't like it you send it back in the 30 day period 3. you buy the Icom You do #3 first, you own the Icom. 73 W9OY ___________________________
The Carolina Windom is advertised to have a significant vertical component to its pattern due to the common mode current on its feedline. This is compared to either a beam or the mystery antenna whic
Why that ding dang bling bang Ten Tec How dare they sell a radio that you gotta pull the ding dang bling bang RIT knob to make it work Why the nerve of these jokers. You pay 330,000 pennies for a rad
<<Why 20W drive through attenuators? 1. Provides a level of safety for "if" (actually "when") I accidentally hit the TX with 100w output, the transverters will only see 6-7dB of overdrive, should be
Bill Not so much of a mental leap, my examples are more of analogy than tautology. In the 60's we duped contests on paper spreadsheets. In the 70's we got the first trash 80 duping programs going. No
Bill, What you say is of course true. Note I never said a word about giving up knobs, but since you brought up planes, you might find a properly implemented joystick may be a more ergonomic and less
Just to start a thread of discussion, Since installing V 1.372 firmware on my Orion, I have been thinking about what would represent the best performance on a given band, antenna, rf gain, agc gain,
My guess is that you need an artificial ground. If the rig is playing RF free with the vertical but has RF with the G5RV, you have common mode RF comming back on the G5RV feedline. An alternative mig
I use the DXlab suite. It is compatable with N4PY through the Ten Tec file interface. I set the commander program to "Pegasus", to gain control through N4PY. It is free and the options are voluminous
Is the Centurian essentially instant on? I have an AL-80B and a AL-1500. I tend to almost exclusively use the 80B because I can just set the load and tune, flip on the amp and in about ten seconds be
I did the "JI" mod to my FT-1000D. It cured my clicks and destroyed my QSK. I'm not that big on QSK and I am interested in a clean signal, so I left it modded, but the point is that the FT-1000D was
<Hopefully, when TT comes out with a STABLE Orion plus, or Orion II, I will be able to afford one then. And thanks to all the Orion owners who are assisting Ten Tec with their Beta, Gamma, Epsilon or
Interesting I run an openwire fed 80M doublet flat top the closest end of which is about 60 ft above the Orion, and a twin lead fed Windom whose end is about 40 ft from the Orion, and a couple of ver
N4PY's software allows independant setting of RF and AGC 73 W9OY __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_
<I honestly don't think anything is gained by twiddling the AGC Threshold independently......Just set the threshold low (<1uV) for all AGC speeds and leave it there.> So what's the use of the AGC con
Barry, So you're telling me that the best possible dynamic range and/or MDS performance for all band conditions and all filter combinations and all antenna combinations is with the gain of the DSP es
No need to get defensive. As I understand it the "AGC threshold" value actually sets the control range of the DSP's gain. This I would presume have an effect on the DSP's dynamic range under various
I would like to see Ten Tec move from serial to parallel processing in their SDR platform. I would also like to see implamentation of a high speed data link and move entirely away from 1975 technolog
I built my first "QSK" amp in about 1981. I was made from the junk I could scrounge from the surplus stores and hamfests in Chicago. I was running an Atlas 350XL which had pretty good QSK. The Amp wa