T-T has produced a radio with excellent firmware which appears to be clean and as bug-free as any radio out there. You're reading old posts, or reading too much into the current ones. You're assessm
HEAR YE HEAR YE ONE AND ALL .. I am the guy that after two days of serious testing believed the problem in the monitor was also affecting transmitted audio. And I made that post in good faith, and w
I'm not so sure we aren't OVER complicating things :-) There is a lot of fliexibility, for certain. But the only non-typical control that's on that list is "threshold". I doubt that you'll see a mea
I wasn't disagreeing with that at all, and appreciate Bill's observations on what works best in his environment. That kind of information helps all of us. Just commenting (as Bill did, earlier) that
some One opinion (of many). In short, yes the Orion is OK. There are a number of design elements in this radio that are quite different than most other radios out there. Digital AGC is one, and I'm
Well you do realize it's pretty much just guesswork :-) Two engineering students were walking across campus, when one of them said "Where did you get such a great bike?". The second engineer said, "
antenna My opine on that subject is that it is NOT indicative in any way of receiver noise. Rather, it's an artifact of the AGC loop in DSP and the behavior of the system trying to find "something"
would I'm not "blaming" DSP, and did not say that DSP "makes the noise". What I said was that the noise you hear in the audio output when there is no (meaning no antenna) signal is an "artifact" of
frequency the The Orion does not automatically change between LCW/UCW based on any band convention. It is what you set. I don't use CT, but it must be the control sequences sent by that program whic
They did miss some fine points, though. I do agree with the point that the Orion is not a good choice as a beginners radio. It appeared the reviewer(s) really didn't mess with AGC controls much. Per
Interesting that ARRL found the fan to be noisy in their review. Well, I just ordered one, after thinking about playing with some digital modes -- so I wonder if I'll get one of the "noisy" ones, or
. My fan arrived today and definitely came out of the pile marked "quiet". Not that it is silent, but it is very quiet. Nothing like the hefty whine that used to come out of my 781 when the fan cycle
Am I looking at the wrong numbers?? The ARRL expanded test report shows Orion IP@ at 77dB pream off, and 73 dB preamp on. Grant/NQ5T _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing li
Yes, I already sent Elecraft a very polite note pointing out the numbers in the ETR .... Grant/NQ5T _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://l
Given that the spec for IP2 is +75dBm, I hope T-T will take a look at what caused this discrepancy -- and whether it was an anomaly of the radio that ARRL had for test, or whether it effects 'em all
A dB here or there is of no consequence whatsover.. . but something about this IP2 thing caused the test result to miss the mark by a WIDE margin. So something is clearly amiss ... Grant/NQ5T ______
I knew there was something missing on this radio. Doggone .. no carrying strap ... THIS is one I want to see a firmware fix for :-) Grant/NQ5T _______________________________________________ TenTec
If I were going to travel with an Orion, it would go in a fitted case. But as long as we're talking about what there should be room for in the cabinet -- don't forget shoes and a change of socks ..
It may be possible .. but ... I queried LDG about this just a few weeks ago, and they indicated there were no plans to upgrade the OEM tuner that is being supplied in the Orion. Grant/NQ5T _________
For once .. I have to agree. I cut my teeth on an IBM 1620, and an incredible research machine (at Rice University) called the R-1 -- with electrostatic memory and more 12AU7's than most of us have