[Orion] Orion Rcve

[Tommy]

Skip,

Unfortunately you get a lot of "I've had my Orion since day zero and 
I never have that problem"!! The truth is that everybody that is 
running firmware beyond about v1.369 has the same darned problem as 
everyone else, even if they don't want to admit it! I think some 
guy's baby their radio and others really do use it, trying to get 
maximum performance out of it. A lot of guys just don't want to 
acknowledge the Orion firmware is still flawed....but it is.

It does very little good to raise the issues on the reflectors 
because all you will get is, 1) do a master reset, 2) do a ram 
clear, 3) if it's not satisfactory to you, maybe you should sell it. 
Heck, I was even told, more than once, that I should not complain so 
much about the fact that the Orion won't key correct with a Ten Tec 
amplifier in the keying loop because I may be hurting sales or 
hurting Ten Tec.  Like I'm supposed to spend my $3300 bucks, the 
radio not work correct, and I'm supposed to smile and love getting 
screwed!
Tom - W4BQF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "skip" <k3cc at fast.net>
To: <orion at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 10:19 PM
Subject: [Orion] Orion Rcve


> Since day one of getting my Orion I have had problems with the 
> receiver.  I
> manifest itself in many ways, if the radio has been one for 
> sometime about 2
> hours the VFO A locks up and I lose any rcve sensitivity.  Another 
> times the
> VFO A locks up and will not tune, also I have had the what I 
> thought was the
> rcve volume would decrease until I couldn't hear a signal.
> In all cases the master reset would work.
>
> However, I'm always told that no one else has these problems.  so 
> it must be
> something I did wrong.  I got my Orion in September of 2004.
>
> de Skip     K3CC
>
>
>
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