[TenTec] Orion relay

[george.skoubis at verizon.net]

I have "homebrew" headset I use for weak signal listening, it's a David Clark headset that I added a Heil boom and mike to.  I like to have the volume turned down low to save my hearing and they seal out the room noise (kids, computers, Titan amp, power supply, etc).

Last night I turned the volume and sidetone down all the way, put the rig on 10M and transmitted CW into a dummy load.  I could just barely hear a tick from the relay if I put my head near the Orion on the opposite side from the key.  The click of the key contacts seemed about the same level as the relay.

  I also tried turning on the external relay delay, disabled the keying loop, etc, trying to find a setting that would make the relay louder but couldn't find a setting that made it any louder.

  I do have the rig tucked into a shelf under my monitor but it is open in the back and both sides so I doubt a truly loud relay would be masked.

  The Omni VI+ I had previous to the Orion did have a loud relay if I turned on the external amp relay, this is the type of noise I could see that someone would find objectionable.


  Now if I could only find a quieter fan for my Athlon XP CPU cooler...

73 de George / KF9YR
> 
> From: "James Duffer" <dufferjames at hotmail.com>
> Date: 2004/05/11 Tue AM 06:47:14 CDT
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] Orion relay
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> 
> I don't hear the clicks....but then, I don't have an Orion.
> 
> (Just an Omni VI)
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