[Orion] Programmable AGC Problem

[Grant Youngman]

It helps to read the manual.  See page 33.

The decay setting ranges in SLOW/MED/FAST AGC positions are 
restricted to values that make sense for those AGC speeds.   
Programmable AGC is settable over the entire decay rate range of 
5-2000dB second.

It wouldn't make sense to have the "slow" AGC position be settable 
to 80dB/second, 'cause that isn't "slow", any more than it would 
make sense to have "fast" agc settable to 2000dB/second, because 
that's essentially "off".  So there are ranges that make sense:

Slow -- 5-20dB/second
Med -- 20-80dB/second
Fast -- 80-200dB/second
Prog -- 5-2000dB/second

Before anyone complains that they should have just made all of the 
AGC settings totally variable, just remember that with absolute 
certaintly, there's bound to be someone else who would have 
wanted it some other way.  So this way, you get both.  Be happy :-)

Grant/NQ5T

>  I have the same problem; however, this issue was present in 
version
>  1.365
> also....   I use the 'programmable' AGC to set the AGC decay to 
below
> 80 db/s 
> 
> Ron ....... NU1U
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orion-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:orion-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of William H. 
Hein
> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 17:55 To: 
orion at contesting.com
> Subject: [Orion] Programmable AGC Problem
> 
> I downloaded and installed Orion firmware 1.366 earlier today 
while I
> was getting my station ready for Charlie K1XX to use in SS.  While
> checking the various menu parameters afterwards I noticed that I 
could
> not set the Main RX programmable AGC decay below 80 dB/s.  I 
had not
> problem setting the Sub RX programmable AGC to 20 dB/s (the
> recommended "contesting" setting per the Orion Optimize 
document that
> Ten-Tec published last summer), but I could not get the Main RX 
to go
> there.
> 
> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
> 
> 73,
> Bill NT1Y
> 
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