[TenTec] Noisy Orion Help please!
Toby Pennington
toby423 at earthlink.net
Sat Jan 15 08:58:35 EST 2005
Jim, The Orion has a very quiet receiver. Check and see if you have both
receiver AF gains turned up at the same time. A master reset as someone
else mentioned is not a bad idea to try. Which version of the radio are you
running? Are you hearing actual signals at all on any band? Be sure you
have chosen the right antenna setting and check your VFO A and VFO B
settings to be sure you have the VFOs assigned properly. The s meter will
read full signal strength now when the rf gain is turned down compliments of
1.372. Toby W4CAK
----- 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
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.12 - Release Date: 1/14/2005
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
>
More information about the TenTec
mailing list