[TenTec] ORION_HELP

[George]

I have been using my Orion for about 4 months now and I have found a few 
quarks with it.
This week-end I was in the CW DX contest and I noticed that the internal 
keyer, at times, put too many dots in. Say I sent a S it sent a H. Maybe it 
was my bencher paddle or ME? But I hope not. I was running 25WPM. Never had 
these problems with the 756 ProII internal keyer.
The other thing is the 706 mic. That PTT isn't what I'm use to with my Icom 
SM-6 mic. Sometimes I have to push the PTT two or three times to get the 
Orion into transmit. It's frustrating when trying for that rare DX!
I know it sounds like stray RF but I don't have any RF, I think, in the 
shack that I know of.
Any thoughts? Anyone concur?
George  W2YJ