[TenTec] A test of Orion's external CW keying

[Sinisa Hristov]

K3BU at aol.com wrote:

> I wonder about your S (power) meter readings. I have found discrepancy on my 
>  Orion between power setting and meter reading. Seems that real output power 
>  corresponds to the encoder setting in the menu. Orion meter reading is off.

Yes, I've also found power setting accurate and meter way off.

But this time I observed meter continually fluctuating
between readings of 0, 15 and 60 W, while the actual RF
output did not fluctuate at all. Power was set to 40 W.


> Did you have a closer look at the leading edge of the first dit and see if 
>  there is high power spike.

I didn't investigate this thorougly but I did observe
some peaks and some strange oscillations on the leading edge.
Peaks were much below full power. 
Scope dumps sent to you in another email.


73,

Sinisa  YT1NT, VA3TTN