[Orion] Sub-Receiver Muting

[Carl Moreschi]

The best way I know of is to use the PTT line as a mute line and turn TXLoop
on but have no connection between TXEN and TXOUT.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC 28635
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James C. Garland" <4cx250b at muohio.edu>
To: <orion at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 8:02 AM
Subject: [Orion] Sub-Receiver Muting


> Gang,
> I use my Orion subreceiver with my vintage AM station (currently a
> Johnson Ranger and Desk KW) and would like to mute the Orion
> receivers when I'm transmitting. THe only way I;ve been able to do it
> is to disable the Orion TX and to close the PTT line, which is a
> cumbersome solution. I'm wondering it there's an easy way to mute the
> Orion by making a simple hardware modification and using the spare
> RCA jack as the external mute jack? Ideally, I'd like to diasble the
> receivers on mute and not just quiet the audio chain.
> Tnx,
>
> Jim W8ZR
>
>
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