Hi Rich
It does not mean its compatible, there are many people using them with
Orions. The thing you have to do is find the appropriate driver wattage to
key the Quadra at your desired power level and never change it from the
Orion.
Tentec advices using the 'user 1' and 'user 2' settings when you want to go
from normal to qro. User 1 could be set with output pwr of 100 watts and
user 2 at 40 (or whatever it takes). Just remember to change those and you
should be okay.
Unfortunately, I do not seem capable to remembering to do that, hence I have
blown up my pw1. Ultimately decided to replace the pw1 with an Acom rather
than replace the Orion
73 de Neal k3nc
-----Original Message-----
From: orion-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:orion-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Richard Cardwell
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 4:35 AM
To: orion@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Orion] Orion - how with ALC?
Gang
I am sorry to hear that the Orion does not include an external ALC control
feature. All theother radios I know have this feature, so I am surprised to
say the least.
Does this mean the Orion II will not be conpatible with my Quadra? I can set
the power to 80 watts or so, but the Quadra seems to use ALC contorl to
manage some SWR problems it may run into.
Rich AA2BY
----- Original Message -----
From: <HeathlinerSB@aol.com>
To: <orion@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Orion] Orion - how with ALC?
In einer eMail vom 29.11.2005 22:00:18 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt
n4py@arrl.net:
The ALC in the Orion is internal only. There is no external ALC on any
tentec radio. You simply adjust the "PWR" level on the Orion for the
correct drive level when in CW mode. Then in SSB, the drive level will
never be more than this value. You then adjust the mic gain level until
the
red ALC light on the Orion flickers on voice peaks. This will never
overdrive your amplifier as long as the steady state PWR level is correct
for CW mode.
Carl Moreschi N4PY
Franklinton, NC
----- Original Message -----
From: <Milan Gütter>; "OK1FM" <ok1fm@ges.cz>
To: <orion@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:53 PM
Subject: [Orion] Orion - how with ALC?
It seems to me very dangerous:
If you are at "High Power", 100W, for working barefoot and then push the
Tune switch (should be 20W), tuning starts with 100W and then -slowly- power
goes down to 20 W.
The same situation is, if you send with 100 W, then switch to RX, reduce
power to a suitable level (let say: 50W for PA-driving) and TX again: You
will
start transmitting with full power, and the rig reduces slowly to 50W.
I never had problems with my amp, it seems to be bulletproof. But i would
not like to do this with a transistorized amp.
Vy 73, Randolf, DL6KAI
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