[TenTec] v1369 ??

[K Van Horn]

Hi Richard,

Glad that you are enjoying your new ORION!!

Some of the buttons can inadvertantly be depressed when plugging/unplugging
the headphone or key jack into the front panel. I am not saying that this is
what happened, just merely pointing out a possibility, as the ANT and VFO
pushbuttons are located in the proximal vacinity of the jacks. IF this is
what happened, and I have no idea that it is, and the USER1 or USER2 button
is the one that gets gets inadvertantly activated, all hell can break loose!

I usually run my sweep at 36 KHZ span as it seems to give better visual
resolution to these old eyes of mine, and should consume less processor
power, in that the amount of information being processed is reduced by a
factor of 2, allowing the radio processors to function more efficiently in
other radio housekeeping functions.

Hope this helps!

73 es Gud DX,

Kirby, W7SV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Detweiler" <rdetweil at hotmail.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 8:58 AM
Subject: [TenTec] v1369 ??


> Received New Orion yesterday,
>
> So far, it's receive performance is living up to expectations,  Initial
> QSO's with two canary island stations on 40M right off the bat,  one
stong,
> and one weak.  That looks good there.
>
> Yet two things happened that were un-expected.
>
> 1) One time when inserting head phones into jack ( used stereo type ) the
> Antenna and VFO push button settings jumped.  Other times no problems.
>
> 2) When transmitting on CW QSO right in the middle of a character,  the
ALC
> light stopped indicating and it appeared the transmit was not keying,  yet
> could hear my side tone.  In a hurry to finish QSO so did a power off
reset
> and came up on frequency then finished the QSO
>
> Both Times had the Sweep going at 72.
>
> Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? or perhaps others seeing things like
> this?
>
> Nice Rig,  Looks like it will really perform well.
> Thanks
>
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