[TenTec] New Orion Update

[Robert Carroll]

I'm willing to bet a little that this is what I experienced.  I heard VE1ZZ
with no tone and had to crank in attenuation to get a little back.  The
receiver sounded as though it was blocking--and it was--because, even though
the AGC was set to one of its modes, it was actually OFF.  Tapping the right
mode again cured the problem.  This happened 3 times during the contest.
Not a big deal compared to the previous firmware version.  At one time I
heard the AGC quite while  I was doing nothing except passive listening.  I
would be interested in others who have experienced this.

By the way, the RF gain control change is really great.  Before the update
my RF gain control did very little to change the copy.

Bob W2WG 

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Toby Pennington
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 2:47 PM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] New Orion Update

Duane, did you try the new RF Gain on the Orion for that signal?  That 
should have worked really good.   Toby W4CAK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane A Calvin" <ac5aa at juno.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 2:10 PM
Subject: [TenTec] New Orion Update


> The RF signal handling on strong signals definitely has issues in the new
> update.  Last night, K5NA on 160m measured S9+35 on the S meter, and the
> tone was completely missing on his CW signal - I had to kick in all 18 dB
> of attenuator before some of it started to return, and even then the
> front end was not doing well on the RX.  Hopefully this is just an
> accidentally twiddled setting when they were doing the updates because
> other things seem to work well so far.
>
>        73,  Duane
>
>
> --------------------------------------
> Duane Calvin, AC5AA
> Austin, Texas
>
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