[TenTec] Sweep display freezing on Orion

[Toby Pennington]

Eric, I just read your review on Eham and feel that after owning the Orion 
for just two days, you really don't know what is going on yet with the rig. 
You state that you have discovered many bugs, some that went away and were 
only there once.  I wonder if you have done a master reset yet, this will 
take care of a lot of problems you may be experiencing. One ham I know does 
a master reset every week of so to be sure all is in order. I would also 
talk with your distributor about some of the issues and see if they can help 
you resolve them.

It is true there is a minor problem with the sweep when the rig is in 
sub-receive mode. Of course, there is no sweep at all for the sub-receive, 
but when in sub-receive and you push NR or AN the sweep may freeze on the 
main receive. This problem is known about and hopefully being worked on by 
TT.

My point is that I believe if you will take the time to get help with some 
of the things you don't understand that do not seem to be working right, you 
will be able to really find out what is a problem and what is operator 
error.     Toby W4CAK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sinisa Hristov" <shristov at ptt.yu>
To: <eric.sensi at skynet.be>; <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Sweep display freezing on Orion


> 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
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