[TenTec] Orion NB button

[Carl Moreschi]

I find the hardware noise blanker in the Orion is fantastic.  I have an
intermittent power line buzz that shows up here once in a while, and the
Orion hardware noise blanker is the only thing that completely removes it.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
Franklinton, North Carolina
n4py at earthlink.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Ewing" <martin at aa6e.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 4:59 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Orion NB button


> Easy question:  Does anyone use the Orion's NB button?  When is it
> useful?  When is the ":HW" option needed?
>
> Maybe I live in a blissful radio quiet zone, but my NB (1.371) seems to
> be a no-op.  Nothing changes, even when I put it full on: 9:HW.  I could
> start up my lawnmower just to give it serious impulse noise, but
> normally lawnmowing and ham operation are anti-correlated around here.
>
> What we need these days is effective atmospheric noise blanking (and
> shortly BPL blanking?), but Orion's NB doesn't solve those problems.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec