I'm glad we're only test piloting software and not airplanes, or I'd be a
goner for sure!
Ron Castro
Chief Technical Officer
Results Radio, LLC
N6IE
www.N6IE.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <Rsoifer@aol.com>
To: <ronc@sonic.net>; <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A: Not Ready for Prime Time!
> Ron and others,
>
> Many thanks for your fine work. After playing with 2.042A overnight,
> I've
> re-installed 2.041XT and will await T-T's next try.
>
> 73 Ray W2RS
>
>
> In a message dated 4/14/2010 2:45:00 A.M. GMT Standard Time,
> ronc@sonic.net
> writes:
>
> I keep hoping that it's something simple like a hiccup while I was
> flashing
> the new firmware, so I'm interested if anyone else finds the same things
> I'm
> finding in the behavior.
>
> Ron N6IE
> www.N6IE.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene Henderson" <wb9hla@comcast.net>
> To: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
> <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A: Not Ready for Prime Time!
>
>
>> Ron,
>> Looks like someone forgot to install this on a radio and see if it
> worked.
>> I agree with you
>> not even close to Prime Time
>> Gene WB9HLA
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
>> To: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
>> <tentec@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 21:50
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A: Not Ready for Prime Time!
>>
>>
>>> Addendum to my post: on problem #1, I'm referring to the RX audio. TX
>>> audio (other than more drive needed and processor problem) still sounds
>>> broadcast quality.
>>>
>>> Ron N6IE
>>> www.N6IE.com
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
>>> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 6:41 PM
>>> Subject: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A: Not Ready for Prime Time!
>>>
>>>
>>>> Here are a list of problems I found right off with the v. 2.042A, even
>>>> after doing a battery reset and two master resets and memory clear:
>>>> 1.. Very noticeable distortion on all audio. Sounds like overdrive
> in
>>>> IF
>>>> or DSP section.
>>>> 2.. AGC hang in AF AGC. S-meter goes up and never comes down! At
> same
>>>> time, RF gain goes down and does not come back up. If you manually
> turn
>>>> the RF Gain all the way to 0, then back up to 100, the radio is
>>>> essentially muted. This will not happen if the "AGC Hang" setting is
> 0,
>>>> but then distortion is really bad.
>>>> 3.. NR does not work in AF AGC mode. Does seem to work well in RF
>>>> AGC
>>>> mode.
>>>> 4.. Much more audio drive needed on AUX input for SSB. It looks
>>>> like
>>>> about 10 dB more.
>>>> 5.. AM carrier= 1.25 Watts max! That's at 100% PWR setting.
>>>> 6.. FM carrier= 6.4 Watts max.
>>>> 7.. SSB Speech Processor gives only around 50 Watts max peak output.
>>>> You
>>>> can get it up to 100 Watts when you crank it to "way beyond
>>>> reasonable
>>>> distortion".
>>>> 8.. Could not find any sort of S-Meter calibration
>>>> Here are the good points so far:
>>>> 1.. Side tone is louder and spot level is too.
>>>> 2.. Waterfall display is much improved.
>>>> 3.. Difference in frequency between Main and Sub improved, but still
>>>> not
>>>> "phase locked". I detect about 0.1 Hz differential which should make
> it
>>>> fine for true diversity antenna work.
>>>> 4.. In RF AGC mode, the NR really does seem improved, although it's
>>>> hard
>>>> to tell with the audio distortion mentioned above.
>>>> So that's the good, the bad and the ugly of it! I'm QSYing back to v.
>>>> 2.039d, the last one that worked right...
>>>>
>>>> Ron N6IE
>>>> www.N6IE.com
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