[TenTec] SSB Bandwidth, readability, power, etc.

[ac5e at comcast.net]

Well, it's certainly possible to get poor TX audio out of the Orion, but having a fellow within eyeball range - yet far enough away so his rig's not overloaded - critique your audio does help. After the settings were down on my cheat sheet all the audio reports have been outstanding. Mikes in use here on the Orion include a Ten Tec 705, Turner 252, and Sure 55. 

They take vastly different settings but they all get good audio reports. At least with my voice, which has been compared to a gravel truck dumping a load. 

I suspect those rough audio reports are due to high mike gain with too narrow TX bandwidth. At least, that's the reports I got during the initial setup procedure. 
> AC5E commented "And by the way, kudos to Ten Tec for
> the speech processor, which provides very natural
> audio even at the higher compression numbers. . . with
> no loss of audio quality at the other end of the QSO."
> 
> Just a comment from the peanut gallery.  If you're
> using an Orion's speech compressor, please solicit
> critical on-the-air comments.  I've heard a fair
> number of Orions that didn't sound so great ("rough
> audio")on ssb, and I suspect that the compressor was
> set too high.  It's possible that the compressor
> setting may be more critical than many suspect. 
> 
> 
> 73,
> Barry N1EU
> 
> 
> 
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