[TenTec] Re: [Orion] Orion Issues or Not - kinda long

[Sinisa Hristov]

"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote:

> This would give you a better idea of what is hapening on a band because of
> the scanning.
 
> A real time display would have to be a simultaneous display of each "channel"
> which would cost far more than anything a ham could afford. Although a scanned
> display, with a short enough refresh and hold time would work. I just don't
> think it would be of much use telling you what's occupied.


Orion (and Icom units, probably) doesn't do any scanning at all.
A wideband IF signal is sampled at 8 MS/s, and its spectrum is computed.
The problem comes from the fact that samples cover only 0.2 % of time,
i.e. 4 ms out of every 2 seconds.


73,

Sinisa YT1NT, VE3EA