[TenTec] MW AM Reception on the Orion

[Bill Miner]

Mark,

My ORION has sounded a bit distorted on MW AM from time to time.  I
believe the AGC threshold setting has something to do with the audio
quality on AM.  Also the new RF gain feature should help on very strong
local stations.

73,
Bill  

Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> 
> Thanks everyone for the replies.  I went back and checked my Orion this
> morning. I had a suggestion to make sure NR and NB were off - they were.
> This morning, everything sounded fine and I tried several local and distant
> MW BC stations.  All I know is that it sounded bad Saturday morning.
> 
> Mark
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t at comcast.net>
> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 10:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] MW AM Reception on the Orion
> 
> >
> > > Yesterday morning, I wanted to listen to a local AM broadcast (820
> > > kHz) station on the Orion while I did some work in the shack. No
> > > matter what I did, I couldn't get the Orion sounding very good.  The
> > > audio was "raspy." I don't do a lot of AM broadcast listening with the
> > > Orion, but I seem to remember that in the past it had excellent
> > > fidelity.  Is this something that has changed in version 1.372?
> >
> >
> > AM reception has always been good.  I just checked mine on a local BC
> > station and it was fine.  1.372, but I don't really think that matters.
> >
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