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Re: [TenTec] Firmware update

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Firmware update
From: "Edward A. Feustel" <efeustel@hughes.net>
Reply-to: efeustel@hughes.net, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:32:49 -0400
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Bill Ogden wrote:
It has been a while since I updated my Orion I.  I am now installing the 062a 
level. I seem to remember that the update process stepped through about 9000 
data lines fairly rapidly the last time I did this.
The current update is moving very slowly. It stayed on lines 680, 710, and 720 for several minutes 
each. (I may not have remembered the line numbers correctly.) The Orion display says "Program 
Flash 668" when the PC display is much past this number.  Also, the Orion display says 
"CC=000" (I assume this is Condition Code 0, usually a good sign for a computer program).

Is this update proceeding normally?

Bill - W2WO

Bill,
When you turn on the system, you must hold down the User 2 button while flipping the on switch. Wait till the Update ROM
screen comes up, then run the executable.

Never having updated before, I was trying it yesterday. It took over 24 hours to get to line 6000. Then Gary Barbour at Ten Tec gave me the clue about User 2. I could not find it anywhere on RF Squared or in my version of the manual.
After I did it the correct way, it took about 3 minutes.

I still could not get the Verification to work, but I seem to remember that it does not work as expected.
Ed, N5EI


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