Doug
What is a Tick Mark??
Art WA8VSJ
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From: "Speer, Doug" <Doug.Speer@FairbanksMorse.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] New Orion 1 - 2.063Xg
> I spoke with Stan Brock at Dayton. He told me a couple of interesting
> things. First he said Ten-Tec and I quote "doesn't care what is said on
> the reflector". Second he did say that Ten-Tec is interested in factual
> well documented trouble reports on any of their software but did not say
> if there was a preferred methodology for Beta testers to report such
> findings. The last thing he said specifically about the tick marks on
> the sweep display is that he did not think there are plans to re-instate
> them because "Ten-Tec doesn't really see the utility of the tick marks
> and not very many customers have really complained about not having
> them". I asked about a final release of the software and he said the
> current Beta Version may very well be the final release but choose not
> to discuss further. I'm not suggesting what we discussed was either a
> positive or negative wrt Ten-Tec.
>
> I have not loaded any of the Beta software because I am not an
> experienced software evaluator and personally don't mind waiting for a
> final more stable version to come out. For now the 2008 factory
> installed software has been fine for my DXing and low intensity
> contesting I do. Of course I graduated from an IC-706 to an Orion II in
> 2008 so the improvement was so remarkable the subtle issues / problems
> with the as delivered software are completely transparent to me.
>
> 73 to all,
> Doug, W9PN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:52:19 -0400
> From: "John T. Fleming" <john@w3gqj.net>
> Subject: [TenTec] New Orion 1 - 2.063Xg
> To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec@contesting.com>
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> I installed the new software and my one complaint has been repaired. If
> the
> sub-receiver is on AM and the transceiver is operating in the SSB mode,
> once
> the rig transmitted, the headphone audio disappeared. That is now fixed.
>
>
>
> The small marks at the bottom of the sweep are missing which to me and
> traffic handling, it is going to take some adjustment to guess where
> there
> is a quiet spot for passing traffic.
>
>
>
> Thanks Ten-Tec for your work.
>
>
>
> 73,
>
> John
>
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