[Orion] USING ORION'S RECEIVER

[Sinisa Hristov]

Tom Whiteside wrote:
 
> Thanks for this great writeup, Sinisa.   This will go in the back of my
> Orion manual as part of the documentation!

I'm glad you like it, thanks.


>  I also found that using audio analysis was a great way to center the
> filters.    Elecraft has some great application notes on doing this under
> application notes on www.elecraft.com.    (They recommend Spectrogram which
> works great.)

Thanks for the information, I'll add a reference to Spectrogram
and a link to Electraft's page.


> When I first looked at the Orion's filters, I was shocked
> at how non-flat and ugly they looked until I turned NR off.    Do that and
> they look wonderful - make sure you do that and also that the DSP bandwidths
> are much wider than the filter being adjusted - obvious but thought I'd add
> that caution anyway.

Well, I simply took them out and used a network analyzer :-)


73,

Sinisa  YT1NT, VA3TTN