Jerry,
My "understanding" of Jack Giehl's chip is that the version he provided
to a Paragon owner was directly related to the TT ROM version as
delivered from the factory. My early Paragon had a 3.8 version and this
was replaced with a Giehl 3.1. My later Paragon came with the TT 4.0
ROM and this was replaced with a Giehl 6.1 version.
As I am not a CW buff, I really can't address the CW/QSK timing
issues...Never really cared!!!
I also never "broke the code" on date of manufacture, so I'm no help
there.
I will say that the Giehl chip as installed in the Paragon is (IMHO)
much more efficient relative to tuning rates/memory storage/display
settings/Voice board operation as compared to the original TT ROM and
again (IMHO) will run circles around the Paragon II ROM, which I
personally feel was produced by TT as an answer to Jack Giehl's HARD
work on the Paragon software.
Jim/Ke3nK
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Jerry Volpe wrote:
Well now that I have a Paragon in my Ten-Tec station (Along with an
Omni-6+, 229B, two Scouts, a 526 and an RX-350) I have been trying to
ferret out the lineage of the 'Giehl Chip'. My Paragon (built in 91) had
a Ten-Tec ROM 3.8 installed but also a Giehl version 3.0 inside the
manual. I installed the Giehl Chip and early tests seem to indicate that
it is working, but I am concerned about what I have read regarding
CW/QSK timing problems. I also read messages indicating that there was a
version 6.0 and a version 6.1 Giehl chip! Yet my search to Jack Giehl's
website indicated that the final version was indeed 3.0.
I'd love to put together some statistics for this reflector (if it
hasn't already been done):
Paragon Serial Number | Ten-Tec ROM version | Giehl ROM version | Known
issues
What say all you Paragon owners? Do you remember what you have?
Jerald, KG6TT
Albany, CA
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