[TenTec] Orion Finished?

[Steve N4LQ]

Gents:
You will notice that the numbers 1371 forms a loop. 1 being the first and
last number while 1370 ends in zero thus breaking the loop. This explains
the whole problem.I suggest you wait for 1.372 which should break the loop
again.

Steve N4LQ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tommy" <aldermant at alltel.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Finished?


> Sorry, but I'm not discounting any of the suggestions offered. I am
reading
> each of them very closely as I asked for such inputs.
>
> However you are correct in that no one else has said 'me too'. But Ten Tec
> themselves have acknowledged that this problem exist and they have
> acknowledged that they are working on a solution for it.
>
> While it's true no one on this reflector has acknowledged the same
problem,
> I doubt very seriously that Ten Tec would put forth engineering/software
> effort based on what just one ham has experienced.
>
> While the possibility exist that I just might have 'ground loops', is
there
> any rational explanation that for the year that I have been operating my
> Orion/Titan 3 that  my system DID NOT exhibit this problem until after I
> installed v1.371, and that it DOES NOT exhibit this problem if I go back
to
> v1.370, and it DOES NOT exhibit this problem if I run v1.371 and set the
> L/R/Spkr audio to MAIN instead of BOTH?
>
> Puzzles me.
>
> Tom - W4BQF
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t at comcast.net>
> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Finished?
>
>
> > > No, it would not hurt to try, it would just waste my time as a current
> > > balun in all likelyhood will not cure a problem that was induced by a
> > > firmware update.
> >
> > That's really hard to believe.  Not impossible I suppose, but hard to
> > believe on it's face ....  unless there's is something extremely unique
or
> > marginal with your specific amp.
> >
> > My amp still runs just fine full bore on the latest firmware (using the
> QSK
> > keying loop), and I haven't seen the throngs all jumping in with "me
too"
> > to amp keying problems with 1.371.
> >
> > So it seems the logical place to start looking is somewhere OTHER
> > THAN the latest firmware.  I'd be a little less quick to discount the
> various
> > suggestions that have been popping up ... especially the issues of
> > grounding and loops.
> >
> > Grant/NQ5T
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