[TenTec] Orion NB button

[Joe Malloy]

I haven't needed the ":HW" option, but the lowest setting of the NB 
eliminates completely my neighbor annoying "click-click-click", 
otherwise known as the electric fence.  There are rare occasions when 
the clicking sound has gone away, but for the most part I just leave the 
NB at 1 and the only clicks I hear are from Yaecomwoods!  (Just kidding!)

73,

Joe, W2RBA

Martin Ewing wrote:
> 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