[TenTec] Orion questions

[Greg Fischer]

I am using a heil headset, but find out that the impedence is not a good match.  So I will try others to see if there is an improvement.

Tnx
Greg

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Sheeley 
  To: tentec at contesting.com 
  Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 12:36 PM
  Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion questions


  Creg 
   You probably already know this. Be sure to only use
  stereo headphones I have no audio problems with just a
  cheap set of wireless stereo headphones.

  de John WB4QDA

  --- Greg Fischer <ab7r at direcway.com> wrote:
  > OK all.... Now that I have been playing with this
  > new rig for about 2 days straight, I have a couple 
  > questions to see if others perform the same or maybe
  > I have something set wrong, which certainly can be
  > the case.
  > 
  > 1.  I have the 3 optional filters installed.  when
  > activated and I adjust BW from 380 down to 370 I see
  > about an 2 S-unit attenuation.  I tried adjusting
  > the center freq  by finding the roll off about
  > equi-distant from the center with the BW control. 
  > This still does not change the 2 s-unit drop.  Is
  > this just the way the filter is acting as a roofing
  > filter instead of a regular IF filter?  Just did not
  > think it should do that.  The filter CF I adjusted
  > was for the 500 hz one.
  > 
  > 2.  The NR in CW seems to work in reverse.  When I
  > activate it, it increases the noise, almost acting
  > like a pre-amp. It increases the cw signal and the
  > background noise as well.  This seems to vary with
  > the strength of the signal.  The NR works great on 
  > SSB with the AGC slower.  But a fast AGC in CW seems
  > like it does not allow the NR DSP enough time to
  > process the signal.
  > 
  > 3.  When the headphones are plugged in, there is a
  > CONSTANT high piched whine, sounds to be about
  > 900-1000 hz (guess).  Also, when sending CW, the
  > audio in the phones sounds like mush, almost like a
  > crackling sound when transmitting.
  > 
  > 4.  Rare, but occaisional loss of RX for no apparent
  > reason.  Sometimes it looks like it locks up in low
  > level Transmit since the SWR indicator comes on
  > replacing the sub rx bargraph, but no output.
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > I am sure these are either software refinements or
  > maybe I have something set wrong and should/could
  > easily be corrected in time  (short time I hope). 
  > Other than these, the rig seems great so far.  I
  > love the signal handling whichi is why I bought it
  > in the first place.
  > 
  > Thanks in advance for any help.  BTW... version
  > 1.341
  > 
  > Greg
  > AB7R
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