[TenTec] Orion relay

Grant Youngman nq5t at comcast.net
Mon May 10 18:14:30 EDT 2004


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> Well, I haven't opened it up to check and I didn't look in the
> schematic however, I don't believe what I hear is the QSK relay...
> That relay is silent... 

Itclicks on the trailing edge of every element, independent of speed, 
etc.  As Sinisa said, amp keying is done with transistor switches.  
This is a reed relay that is part of the internal keying/QSK circuitry.

If you don't hear the relay, you have the only "silent" Orion ... :-)

Grant/NQ5T



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