I am sort of amazed at all the comments about the new firmware. From reading
these, you'd come to the conslusion that the new version is not the way to go -
my experience with the new firmware has been VERY different... I have loved my
Orion for the receiver I but have always added caveats when recommending it due
to the instabilities - the worst being loss of audio in the subreceiver at the
worst possible times. With the new version, the sweep works and I have yet
to need a reboot despite very heavy usage since the update.
Weak signal 160M work is my principle winter love and I would swear, if
anything, the new firmware is better with weak signals. I'm not a fan of the
old style S-meter backing off with threshold but can live with that. NR
seems quite effective to me - now it gives me more control over the
aggressiveness level than before. I mostly prefer to control those parameters
myself but sometimes use NR. Comments about the audio notch performance not
being as good and not affecting the S-meter do seem justified. QSK and
amplifier keying are working perfectly here with the new version. I had some
of the same artifacts trying to use the monitor on SSB but the actual transmit
audio sounds super good to me using a separate receiver. And now, the
compression level adjustment really seems to do something and is well behaved.
I would *NEVER* go back to the old firmware myself!
Tom N5TW
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