Quote from Doug Smith's web site at www.doug-smith.net/orion.htm
"Additional Bonuses for CW Operators
Ten-Tec rigs have been legendary for their QSK; but this time, we have
pulled out all the stops. Imagine silky smooth full break-in at 60 wpm!
Well, the Orion does it."
I'm still imagining.....
Did Doug represent TenTec here?
Steve
N4LQ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Trombino Jr" <w2kj@bellsouth.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 9:06 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Orion QSK
> Howdy fellow TenTec'ers:
>
> Interesting discussion going about QSK in the Orion with the new 1.370
> version.
>
> In my OMNI VI/3, Argonaut II and Argonaut V the fastest QSK settings
> produced real QSK...that is, I could hear characters/audio noise between
> dits.
>
> Under high QRM conditions this was too fast and caused audio
> artifacts/clicking/clacking between dits during keying.
>
> The SLOW QSK setting on my Argo II was perfect in countering the above
> effects. My Argo V's next delay setting completely eliminates
QSK....there
> need to be more steps between full QSK and less than full QSK. This is
> something I have sent to "ditsnbits"....the engineers response indicated
it
> required too much work to make it possible.
>
> I just tested my Orion with 1.369. I used no AGC, no sidetone, no NR, no
> AN, no notch.
>
> Turning up my audio on the Orion I could hear audio between dits only up
to
> 18 wpm as indicated on my Super CMOS III keyer. This was with "0" delay
on
> the Orion.
>
> I checked next my K2. With no delay I could hear audio between dits up to
> 40wpm using the same keyer.
>
> Does the above procedure really check for full QSK??? It seems to, and
> given the performance of my K2 it indicates to me that the Orion is not
> operating at full QSK even with "0" delay.
>
> In previous discussions with TenTec techs about QSK they state they never
> really measure for "less than 20ms" TX to RX return speed. They design
the
> gear for that speed but no discrete measurement is made to validate the
QSK
> speed.
>
> Thinking about this, I recall never hearing full QSK on the Orion going
back
> to the original version of software. Hmmmmm.
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
> 73, Joe W2KJ
>
>
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