I've done the same, one large sig and my S-meter needle locked hard over and
had to switch off to recover.
I've gone back to 2.039 to get the marks on top of the screen sweep. It
looks a better radio too.
John de VK2XGJ
Money talks, Chocolate sings!
----- Original Message -----
From: <Rsoifer@aol.com>
To: <ronc@sonic.net>; <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:34 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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