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Re: [TenTec] AM Receiver distortion in Orion II

To: Ron Castro <ronc@sonic.net>, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] AM Receiver distortion in Orion II
From: Martin AA6E <aa6e@ewing.homedns.org>
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:47:34 -0500
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The vertical axis is time, about 30 seconds per division. You see approximately two complete playbacks of the 1 minute mp3.

73 Martin AA6E

Ron Castro wrote:
The EQ settings were flat on both radios. Actually, there is no receive EQ setting in the TS-870, and the receive EQ on the O2 V.2.037j does not work on AM. Each receiver was fed to a Behringer UB1202 mixer (settings flat) feeding a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card in my laptop, also flat.

On your graph Martin, is the vertical axis time? If so, how much time is being displayed? I'm not quite sure how to read that.

      Ron N6IE
 www.N6IE.com
(Formerly N6AHA)

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] AM Receiver distortion in Orion II


The second half is clear far better than the first, in my opinion.  It's
not a question of low-frequency response, but of distortion in the highs
- almost like a little clipping, or maybe some other digital artifact.

Ron should tell us what the Audio Eq. setting was, by the way.

I ran a spectrum on the file with Spectrum Lab.  The results (for
several playbacks) are at http://aa6e.net/aa6e/images/capt0701232044.jpg
.  Carl was right that the "good" playback is much wider than Orion's.
Orion's spectrum has a very sharp cutoff, but I don't think that's what
I am hearing.

It would be neat to try this on the Orion I comparing v1 and v2
firmware, but I've got a few other things to do right now...

73 Martin AA6E


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