[TenTec] Initial comments about ORION II

[Toby Pennington]

Ron,  Do you notice any loss of signal audio when turning the BW encoder
from 200hz  to 100hz in the cw mode?     Not the signal strength but the
audio itself.  I seemed to notice loss of audio the last time I operated the
O2.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron" <ron at morell.us>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 6:06 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Initial comments about ORION II


> My ORION II arrived yesterday and 15 seconds later it was out of the box
and
> on the air.  I tried it out for several hours yesterday and set it up in
all
> the configurations that caused problems with the ORION.  It did not
develop
> any anomalies that I could detect.  As I currently operate this radio, it
is
> flawless.  I've operated binaural CW with sweep on at the different
levels,
> I've operated CW and PSK, while listening to AM broadcast radio on
receiver
> B with the sweep on, and a variety of other settings that have caused the
> ORION running the latest version 1.3 software to either stop transmitting,
> or stop receiving on Receiver B.
>
> It is a little disappointing, that I'm not yet challenged with software
> anomalies whilst operating the O2.  Maybe someone would enlighten me and
> tell me what parameters are needed to create a fault in this version of
> software?  Perhaps if I read the manual, and consider the instruction
there,
> I'll find a way to create a fault.
>
> I really like this radio and wish all on the reflector and all the folks
at
> Ten Tec a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!  And thanks for building
> this great radio.
> 73
> Ron  KA7U
>
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