[TenTec] Orion: Two questions

[Martin Ewing]

Dave,

Some standard remarks:

What firmware version?

The relay is a fact of life.  Mine is pretty quiet and
not bothersome to me.  Others report total silence,
but still others have your complaint.  I wonder if
they're all the same, and we just have different
nuisance thresholds! More likely, there is unit to
unit variation.  Probably you could deaden the sound
if you wanted to dig into the rig.

The glitches you report _might_ be fixed by doing a
master reset.  (That's not really a factory reset -
you don't need to lose data.) The MR is the first
thing to try when you run into unexplained troubles
like this.

I assume you're not running a logging program or
otherwise using the serial port?

If not, then I don't know!

73 - Martin, AA6E

--- dbp at tds.net wrote:

> Hi-
>  I have an ORION...WOW! What a receiver! Better than
> my OMNI VI+.
>  A few questions:
>  1. When transmitting CW I hear a relay clicking to
> match my CW. Using headphones I still hear it,
> meaning that it is not barely audible, it is
> hearable. The OMNI VI+ is silent when sending CW.
> What setting can I change to make the ORION quiet?
>  2. My three "send" buttons in CW are programmed:
> mycall, an RST, and a CQ. After the rig has been on,
> maybe for 10-20 minutes it will ON ITS OWN transmit
> a "QRZ"! And it may do it again sometime later,
> again. What gives here? It has been doing this for a
> couple months, not just at Hallowe'en.
>  3. When listening to SSB (a rare occurance)it
> appears that the AGC drops to "off" and the receiver
> gets loud for an instant, and then the AGC
> immediately comes back. It is not from a loud
> signal. The AGC is set to slow and factory defaults.
> 
> I have not done any factory reset yet. Is that the
> re-course?
> 
> 73 de Dave in NH
> 
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