[Orion] Orion No Receive

[Ralph Irish]

Ron

I've had my ORION for about 10 months, and although I don't have
quite the antenna setup you have, I have had situations where I
had the NR set too high, (for band conditions!) and observed
very few signals on the bands.

I hope that in a future software revision, they will do something
to make the NR setting a little less critical.  I got mine last
October, and have not yet upgraded the software version.  I
think that mine is Ver. 1.369, but that is just a guess, since
I am at work, and that information is at home.

I have had the NR set to 2 on a few occasions, and the main
thing noted was that only the strongest signals were easily
read, and that probably many more 'weak' ones were not to be
heard.

Ten Tec could possibly make that scale into .5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0,
2.5,  etc., for a little finer adjustment of the sensitivity of
Noise Reduction, or, perhaps make it a function of the rotary
encoder and  have even greater adjustability for NR functions,
with tenths increments.

Just a few thoughts off the top of my head.

73,

Ralph - W8ROI



Kamar wrote:

> Well, it finally happened to me after owning the Orion for almost one year.
> The band appeared to have gone dead.  I was listening to 40 meters for about
> an hour with the NR on and set to 2.  All signals disappeared.
>
> Believing that 40 meters went south, I switched to 20 meters, and heard weak
> signals for a few seconds.  Then the receiver appeared to go dead, but with
> background noise similar to band (atmospheric) noise that weak.  However,
> there was no signals no matter where I tuned across the 20 meter band.
> Switching antennas (3 element yagi on 20/15/10, and 80/40/24 meter dipoles)
> resulted in no signals but still had like weak atmospheric noise.
>
> Switched back to 40 meters and then right back to 20 meters; the signals
> were there.  Switching back to 40 meters I was receiving strong signals.
> Note that I never performed a 'radio reboot.'  Just switched between 20/40
> meter bands.
>
> Running software version 1.371; this is the first time that I have noticed
> any problems with the Orion.......
>
>
>
> Ron .... NU1U
>
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