[TenTec] Orion NB button

K Van Horn k7ec at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jul 19 18:26:35 EDT 2004


Ditto!!

Kirby, K7EC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Moreschi" <n4py at earthlink.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion NB button


> 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
> >
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