[TenTec] Re: Orion cw rise/fall time setting

[Barry N1EU]

"Roy Koeppe" <royanjoy at ncn.net> wrote:

>I have no Orion, but read the online manual, and it says that when using
>an external keyer your slowest rise time selection available is 5ms. Is
>this true? If so, it defeats the the encouragement you posted?

No, it's not true.  I've always used an external keyer with 8-10msec rise time.  Ideally, Ten-Tec should either update the documentation and wpm menu warning or better yet, change the firmware so that "5msec" risetime is REALLY 5msec without keyclicks.

73,
Barry N1EU

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