I've been playing my Orion I pretty hard since downloading the new firmware
yesterday morning. I've had a chance to use it mostly in CW including some
weak signal stuff on 10M and 12M (3Y0X) and also 160M. All I can say is
this release is VERY impressive... My radio was back at the factory getting a
new RIT/XIT shaft encoder last September and they did the display mod then
apprarently. The new sweep function is much more responsive and stable - I
am not used to having it on but it was on continuously during my testing - not
a hickup. Now I can click on packet spots and do whatever I want with the
subreceiver and not lose subreceiver audio - that is so so nice - I was so fed
up with rebooting my radio to be able to hear the pileup - and you would lose
it at the worst times... I use the RF "gain" AGC threshold adjustment
aggressively and like the feel of the new version. I was commenting to my
bride about how clear the signals were on 160M last night befo
re reading the posts of others making this comment - probably just conditions
but maybe that audio AGC action now eliminated really does help - not sure
about that....
Based on the comments folks made about the microphone and compression settings,
I tried these backed way off based on these comments but ended up using my
normal settings during a sked tonight - I had no way of really measuring the
compression settings other than I was using the monitor function. So that
seems fine.
I'm sure there will need to be some tweaks after such a major release but I am
very pleased.
Tom Whiteside N5TW
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