Hi,
I don't own an Orion but have you tried N4PY software to
customize the tuning rate? It works on the Pegasus version.
5Hz is a nice CW tuning rate.
Art
W2NRA
> 5B4AGN wrote:
> >I don't seem to be able to get to a comfortable tuning
rate for the VFO.
>
> Bob, you may not have discovered the 10X tuning
rate change that
> is toggled by depressing Main RX or Sub RX. When toggled,
you will
> see "xm" appear by Step along with the new rate at 10X
normal.
>
> My default on CW is Step 1 Hz and Enc Rate Fast
for DXing. When I
> want to scan quickly, I toggle the rate and go to 10 Hz
steps. Yes,
> there is a "digital" sound if you tune very quickly, but
it does not
> bother me. If it does bother a lot of people, I suspect a
solution
> would be to change the Enc Rate to an even faster value,
while leaving
> Step set to 1 Hz.
>
> I believe I used xm 10 normally in the CQ WW CW
Contest, and
> toggled back to 1 if necessary when narrowing BW under
extreme QRM.
> On SSB, my default is 10 Hz and I toggle xm 100 for
scanning quickly.
>
> 73, Bill
W4ZV
>
> P.S. Regarding what the extremely fine rates are useful
for, I suspect
> it would be more for EME or situations using extremely
narrow BW's. I
> sometimes use DSP Blaster externally which has a 50 Hz BW
and Orion's
> rate works very well with that. With Orion's 100 Hz BW
(which is
> actually more like 150), it is probably overkill.
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