[TenTec] Orion II S Meter

[Phil Howlett]

Some have been kicking about the Orion II's S-meter reading this morning. To 
satisfy my own curiosity, I hauled out a Boonton signal generator and made 
some measurements at 14.200 of signal level vs S-Meter. S-9 was found to be 
50uV and then 10dB steps above and below 50uV were taken to generate the 
following table. The preamp was off.

  uV                S-Meter

5                    3
15                  6
50                  9
150                9+20dB
500                9+35dB
1500              9+45dB
5000              9+55dB

The S9 50uV meter reading seems to hold from band to band very well. The 
strongest signals I receive are approx S9+50dB.

W9XX