I don't know why they didn't put it in What's New, but it was in the Product
Status on the website since August.
Ron N6IE
www.N6IE.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "BOB@W2PNJ" <bobw2pnj@optimum.net>
To: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
<tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? Red Scan With
VerticalLinePatterns
> RON,Why hasn't TEN-TEC mentioned this in their "Orion II What's New!" in
> version 2.041 XL.... Bob w2pnj@arrl.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 6:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? Red Scan With
> VerticalLinePatterns
>
>
>> Jim: That's exactly what I am seeing and what I believe has been
>> described
>> by others. The 'spectrum trace' red (which is a peak-hold trace) is all
>> you're supposed to see and is one of the improvements over the previous
>> versions.
>>
>> Ron N6IE
>> www.N6IE.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jim M." <jmiller1706@cfl.rr.com>
>> To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 2:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? Red Scan With Vertical
>> LinePatterns
>>
>>
>>> The radio had been running on Rx for a few hours, 20 and 80 meters. The
>>> 80m
>>> band was dead, mostly just local line noise.
>>>
>>> I am now getting the normal white spectrum, but now behind it the entire
>>> scan screen (up to the blue marker, is filled with red, first solid red,
>>> then alternating red/black that starts at the top and walks downward,
>>> then
>>> solid red again. Occasionally the white spectrum trace will wipe itself
>>> away from right to left. Is this what you folks are seeing, or is this
>>> new?
>>> By turning sweep off and on again it began working correctly.
>>>
>>> Previously I had only seen this as a brief red spectrum trace (the white
>>> trace disappears for a half second or so), and I thought this was what
>>> you
>>> were seeing. Just before this new phenomenon started, I was tuning and
>>> happened to catch the spectrum in a "red only" trace...and it froze in
>>> all
>>> red color as long as I would turn the tuning knob.
>>>
>>> I took some photos at: http://s685.photobucket.com/albums/vv219/N4BE/
>>>
>>> Jim N4BE
>>>
>>>
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