I have been reading all the emails concerning AM mode and the Orion. I
might be rather naieve, but I though the Orion was designed as a DXer's
radio (the first one Ten Tek ever produced for the DXer); two receivers,
roofing filters, good DSP bandpass filters, good cw breakin, FSK for RTTY,
speach processor, etc. etc.
I might have missed the call outs on the clusters, but I can't recall any
callouts for the VU4 or Aves Island on AM; more or less any other major
DXpedition! If you are really big into AM and "broadcast quality" AM,
why would you purchase an Orion?? I would think one of the old "boat
anchors" that runs 100% plate mod with a pair of whatevers running in
class B push pull would be the rig of choice. I have to say that I have
not had one DX station tell me that my audio was poor or was lacking in
the lows, mids or highs. I use a Heil mic with swithable elements and it
works just fine.
I don't know that you can design a radio that does everything perfectly;
reminds me of the military several years ago when they wanted a "one size
fits all" aircraft. The answer was the F-111/FB-111 and something else;
did everything, but not anything very good.
K8ZTT
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