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Re: [TenTec] Orion II Firmware update...how soon?

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II Firmware update...how soon?
From: "Douglas Shock" <douglas.shock@gmail.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:21:08 -0600
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and, as an afterthought...I am glad you are still on the wagon for getting
TenTec to step up and finish the job. A working s-meter would be nice as
well...you listening Scott?

On 4/5/07, Grant Youngman <nq5t@tx.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Grant, the NR on my 1000mp smokes the Orion II in every
> > sense. The NR on my
> > TS-2000 smokes the NR on the Orion II again in every sense.
> > The bottom line
>
> As an afterthought, I'll be happy -- if someone would provide one or both
> of
> these two radios -- to replicate the tests I ran on the Orion I/II
> regarding
> Nr driven improvement in SNR vs. receive bandwidth.  Alternatively, I'd be
> happy to discuss the methods and systems used in some detail so that the
> tests could be replicated by anyone else wanting to take it on.
>
> The results from the first round gave the nod to the original Orion NR
> code,
> quite better than the Orion II revision.  Neither were good at narrow
> bandwidths (and I'd wager the 1000MP or TS-2000 suffer the same fate, not
> because I have second sight, but because of the physics of noise).  You
> can
> find the data back in the archive -- I lost a disk drive along the way,
> and
> no longer have the original posting in my mail archive.
>
> Might be an interesting comparison, and would certainly wrap some facts
> around what are otherwise anecdotal rants (in stereo) about who's is
> better.
>
> If you can find me an NR in-radio-function or external box -- amateur
> radio
> equipment, affordable, no DARPA or NIST projects worth big bucks -- that
> actually works the miracles attributed to it at all times, in every case,
> I'll buy it.  Shucks, I'll buy TWO.  Or at least nominate it for radio
> saint-hood :-)
>
> Grant/NQ5T
>
>
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