Very nice news article. The equipment looked very sophisticated , I am sure
it will be an eye opener to non hams. carry on ! John kb2huk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
To: "Ten Tec List" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 2:55 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Orion at Field Day
>I upgraded an Orion to v. 1.373b5 to run in our Field Day event this year
>with the Redwood Empire DX Assn. and the Marin Amateur Radio Society. You
>can see an interesting newspaper article published in yesterday's Marin
>Independent Journal with a picture of me operating the Orion at
>www.N6IE.com!
>
> The rig with the updated firmware was much improved over the previous
> original version although I don't recall which one was in it before. Last
> year, there were reports of crashing at least once per hour or more. This
> time, running all SSB and over 1,000 QSO's, we had only two lock-ups
> during the course of the event. I suspect that the newest v. 2.x is
> better and advised the rig's owner to do the hardware mod and upgrade.
>
> Ron N6IE
> www.N6IE.com
>
>
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