[Orion] Re: Orion Digest, Vol 5, Issue 4

[Charles W. Shaw]

Bob, W9GE wrote:
>     I too had a "keying failure" on my Orion.  When sending a string of =
>dahs the output falls off and comes back up again.  It was somewhat =
>visible on the ALC indidcator, but was very obvious when viewed on an =
>analog watt meter.  My Orion worked fine from early November 2003 right =
>up until sometime last week, when the problem really manifested itself. =
>After completely eliminating any external problems, I packed the Orion =
>up and it should arrive at Ten Tec today for them to take a look.

         I had an almost identical occurrence with my Orion.  I discovered 
it when trying to use certain of my beverage antennas on 80 or 40M at the 
same time as the Titan 425 at a KW.  (Visible on the Peak Power 
lights.)  My solution was simple--since the RX antennas weren't really 
effective on those bands anyway--I just press the lower-left RX ANT button, 
and the problem goes away.  Press it again and it is bad again.

         I haven't bothered to see what my signal sounded like when this 
happened, but wonder if this is the effect that W0YG reported when he was 
told that his signal was "raspy".  I doubt it.

Charles - N5UL
Hobbs, NM