[TenTec] My Orion

[Toby Pennington]

Really great news Tommy!   Thanks for your work in helping to improve the
rig by BETA testing.    Toby   W4CAK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tommy" <aldermant at alltel.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:04 PM
Subject: [TenTec] My Orion


> Below is a copy of an email I recently posted to TTBUG (Ten Tec
> firmware group). The suggestion about the keying loops came from
> W9GE.
>
> "My Orion is 19 months old.
>
> Since owning it I have had continious problems with the Orion
> randomly dropping RF output power when using my Titan 3 in Keying
> Loop #1. Since getting my Titan 3 back from TT repair, I have been
> turning on BOTH Keying Loop's, even with nothing connected to Keying
> Loop #2. Two weeks now with no RF power loss when using the Titan 3
> in Keying Loop #1. This is with the sweep either turned on or turned
> off, does not seem to matter.
>
> I do some high speed CW (not ONLY high speed CW) and when I first
> tried running my Orion up to 50 wpm, the dots would shorten
> seriously, to the point that my Orion could not be copied by others
> at that speed. Now with v1.372 and with v1.373b5, I have
> successfully ran my Orion up as high as 74 wpm, full QSK, without
> the dots shortening. My critical QSO partners say the Orion is now
> perfectly copyable at 74 wpm. When I move to 76 wpm, the dots start
> shortening again. However I think this is a fantastic improvement
> and certainly would not ask any more from the Orion. FYI...if you
> run CW over about 50 wpm, you must drop Tr down to the 3ms position
> (which is actually a Tr of 1ms, the exact same as the Omni 6 and
> Omni 6 Plus).
>
> Absolutely great improvement on the CW full QSK capability of the
> Orion!!
>
> Tom - W4BQF"
>
> Tom - W4BQF
>
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