[TenTec] New LDG Tuners for Jupiter and Orion

[Steve Baron - KB3MM]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Erbaugh" <mark at microenh.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 21:51
Subject: Re: [TenTec] New LDG Tuners for Jupiter and Orion


> > I'm curious how they can get the Orion firmware to address the different
> > memories.  Maybe it's automatic, and frequency dependent.  We'll see.
> > Anyway, the info is not up on the web site yet.

The Orion shouldn't have to be incvolved -  The update for the LDG works
great on any rig.  The rigs don't even know it is on the output.

>
> The way the upgrade to the AT-11MP works is pretty slick. It remembers any
> setting of relays for which it found a match (I assume in some sort of
FIFO
> buffer -so that as it remembers a new setting, it forgets the oldest one).
> Then the next time it tries to tune, it tries the remembered combinations
> first. It doesn't care what the frequency is, it just tries all the
> remembered combinations looking for a match before it resorts to trying
all
> possible combinations.

It is pretty fast so no time to try past use combinations.

Have you read the description on the LDG site ?
>
> I suspect that the Orion firmware won't know anything about the LDG tuner,
> other than to pass it a "tune" command, for which the LDG tuner will
> impersonate the Orion tuner, just like other LDG tuners work directly with
> some Icom radios.
>
> 73,
> Mark
>
>
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