[TenTec] Oprion II Playing

[Jack Emerson]

Grant,
That's all well and good. But pse answer the most important question:
What kind of condition was the box in when UPS delivered it?
73 and have fun with the new rig, de Jack W4TJE


At 08:46 PM 12/15/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>It does indeed play (not surprisingly) :-)
>
>I don't have anything reconnected other than an antenna and power yet.
>
>The AM tuning step issue with the sub-receiver in all 1.xxx versions has
>been fixed (this was actually a DSP code issue, I think).  And AN appears to
>work properly if NR is also on at the same time.  Haven't tried QSK yet, to
>see how that goes, and need to reassemble the audio setup.
>
>The color display is nice, but I never really had a problem with the B/W
>version.  It is nice and crisp, and there are several options available.  I
>haven't decided which I like the best overall.  The orginal B/W are there as
>options also.
>
>Under some circumstances there's a bit of an "edge" and what sounds
>something like harmonic distortion or a funky mixing product added to the CW
>tone when NR is activated, or if you prefer just some rasp.  Under narrow
>bandwidth conditions my impression is that there is a solid increase in S/N
>ratio, and that "edge" I referred to contributes to that.
>
>Threshold defaults are different -- now 1.0 uV rather than .37 uV or
>whatever it was previously.
>
>CW receive was NOT working on the sub-receiver as received.  A Master Reset
>did not fix the problem.  A Memory Clear Reset did.  So some things have not
>changed :-)
>
>All of the early audio routing bugs that accompanied the original Orion
>release do not appear to be issues this time, thankfully.  And so far at
>least, nothing has frozen with the sweep running.
>
>One thing I don't recall is having to have the Main receiver in CW mode for
>the spot function to work.  With the Sub selected and in CW mode, Spot does
>not function unless the Main is also in CW mode.  I haven't had my Orion for
>a couple of months, so my memory may just be dim on this.
>
>Dial frequency accuracy is excellent.  I recall the Orion arriving at about
>30Hz off at 10 Mhz.  The Orion II, after a couple of hours on the table,
>settled at just 3 Hz high.  Not bad.
>
>Grant/NQ5T
>
>
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