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Re: [TenTec] Orion/AL-1200 QSK -- Hard lesson #1

To: "Billy Cox" <aa4nu@ix.netcom.com>, <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion/AL-1200 QSK -- Hard lesson #1
From: nq5t@attbi.com
Reply-to: tentec@contesting.com
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:12:58 -0600
List-post: <mailto:tentec@contesting.com>
> >If you don't have the amp powered on, you have to turn the keying
> >loop OFF -- and then remember to set it to ON again, the next time
> >the amp is powered up.  I think this demands a big sign on the amp
> >power switch ...

Well, at least with the AL-1200.  If the amp is off, the Enable line 
back to the Orion doesn't signal back to the Orion that it is safe to 
apply RF.  Seems reasonable to me.  I might put a relay on the 
enable-out line from the amp so that if the amp is off it is always 
"enabled".  I see it as an amp problem, rather than an Orion 
problem.

Just means the operator has to use brain before engaging PTT :-)

By the way, I replaced the fuse lamps on the QSK board, and 
everything is working just fine.

Grant

Grant

It would be possible

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