[TenTec] v1369 ??

[George, W5YR]

Carl, out of curiosity, why doesn't TT just disable the Sweep function,
remove it from the list of features and specs and avoid all the grief it
seems to cause. Is it really good enough to be worth the effort? How do you
handle it in your control program?

73, George W5YR
w5yr at att.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Moreschi" <n4py at earthlink.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] v1369 ??


> My suggestion is to not use sweep when transmitting.  And maybe even don't
> use sweep at all.
>
> Carl Moreschi N4PY
> Franklinton, NC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Detweiler" <rdetweil at hotmail.com>
> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 2:58 PM
> 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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