[TenTec] Sweep display freezing on Orion

[Sinisa Hristov]

Eric SENSI wrote:

> 2. Meter and AGC :
> ------------------
 
> It seems that the meter needle is electronically controled by the AGC
> system... well, in the case of a static discharge at the antenna, a "POP" is
> heard thru the speaker, the needle is peaking at +20dB or +40dB and the AGC
> is killed during half a second or so making the reception of the signal
> impossible during this short amount of time !
 
> I never have this "problem" with my FT-1000, the AGC was not killed by the
> static discharge and I could still hear the audio behind it !
> 
> Is there a way to avoid that phenomenon ? The PROG AGC values cannot be set
> to resolve this...


Orion's AGC works pretty well and your experience is 
probably caused by specific AGC settings at the time.

For high QRN conditions you may consider reducing
AGC hold time to 0, and increasing AGC Decay (actually recovery)
rate to 20-50 dB/s.


73,

Sinisa  YT1NT, VA3TTN