[Orion] Orion WAV samples

Martin AA6E msembx-aa6e at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 29 14:33:07 EST 2005


Amazing audio clips!  I've got to put up some more antennas...  

For my ears, at least, the effect is much better than the Panoramic
Stereo mode.

73, Martin AA6E

--- Barry N1EU <n1eu at myway.com> wrote:

> 
> Bill W4ZV mentioned: "N1EU has several examples of Diversity RX
> here:http://www.qsl.net/n1eu/orion/diversity.htm  If you poke around
> Barry's website, he also has examples comparing weak signals on Orion
> with aFT-1000D somewhere on his site."
>  
> Although you might have to put up with some ads (unless you use
> Firefox), my Tripod site is probably much faster at
> http://n1eu.tripod.com/orion/diversity.htm
>  
> I just put up two new audio clips today where I switch back and forth
> between stereo diversity with two antennas and mono with one antenna.
>  One of the clips is on 20M ssb and uses a yagi and a Beverage
> antenna.  If you have a "lowband" receiving antenna, you might want
> to give a listen to how much it can help pull out the weak ones on
> the higher bands as well.  Fortunately (or unfortunately), the Orion
> is the only ham transceiver that has ever offered stock diversity
> reception capability with antenna and vfo tuning flexibility.  
>  
> I had removed the FT-1000D weak signal reception comparison from my
> Web site (it was recorded a year ago and I've wanted to do a better
> job), but I put it back up for a while if anyone wants to listen to
> that as well since Bill mentioned it.  
>  
> 73,
> Barry N1EU
> 
> P.S. My previous attempt to post this message resulted in "Your
> message to TenTec awaits moderator approval" so I'll probably start
> posting to the Orion list in the future instead
> 
>


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