[TenTec] Noisy Orion Help please!

[Steve N4LQ]

Give it a hard reset and see what happens.

Steve N4LQ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Miller WB5OXQ" <wb5oxq at grandecom.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 12:28 AM
Subject: [TenTec] Noisy Orion Help please!


Can someone help me please?

I got a new Orion a week ago and I am still learning to use it.  I 
previously owned an Omni 6+ which had a very satisfactory receiver and with 
the NR on and rf gain at about 60-70% I could enjoy nearly noise free 
reception.
The Orion on the other hand has a lot of background noise on most any band 
and I cannot seem to get rid of the noise.  I have tired different rf gain 
settings, tried several of the programmable agc settings, several different 
filter settings but nothing helps.  The noise sounds like steam escaping 
under pressure and the nr and nb only changes the tone of the noise.  Even 
with the rf gain at 1 and the preamp off there is still a lot of noise.  The 
s meter is not effected by the rf gain settings either.  on 75m the S meter 
reads about 9 s units or more when no one is talking.  I can copy ssb 
signals on 75 meters better on my 1960's Hammarlund HQ 180.
WB5OXQ, Jim in Waco


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