[TenTec] keying loops

[Carl Moreschi]

I have always run my Orion with keying loop 1 on and keying loop 2 off.  I
do not have anything hooked up to keying loop 2.  I have not experienced the
keying loop problem with my Orion and ACOM 1000.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
Franklinton, NC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t at comcast.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 1:52 PM
Subject: RE: [TenTec] keying loops


> Well, that's certainly interesting.  And thanks (to everyone) for the
info.
>
> It always seemed like either (1) the amp would for some reason stop
> responding with TxEN or (2) the Orion was either missing the handshake or
> getting thoroughly cumboozled and ignoring it -- thus wouldn't go into
> transmit.  Sounds like the latter, but it's curious that enabling the 2nd
> loop (even without anything connected apparently) may solve the problem.
>
> If that is a solution, hopefully it will lead T-T down the path to
diagnose
> and fix whatever conditions are cause things to misbehave in the first
> place.
>
> Curiouser and curiouser .. :-)
>
> Grant/NQ5T
>
>
> > Grant and all:  Not sure that I am the originator but my
> > suggestion back channel to Tommy was that I had a similar amp
> > keying problem and found that both keying loops had to be set
> > the same for anything to work properly.
>
>
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