[TenTec] My new ORION

[Steve Baron - KB3MM]

What type of distortion is this?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t at comcast.net>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 19:15
Subject: Re: [TenTec] My new ORION


> > My Orion in comparison at 100Hz position of DSP filter
> > is more like 300Hz wide-not as good but OK.
>
> The real difference will become immediately apparent the next time you run
> into a situation on the 7800 where a strong signal 1Khz away mucks up your
> ability to copy a weak CW signal regardless of how narrow the DSP
bandwidth
> is.
>
> > So, I just hope that distortion of strong signals will be
> > eliminated (doesn't exist in other DSP radios).
>
> I've read with interest all of the discussion of this issue.  I have yet
to
> experience any case of a high level signal causing distorted output, at
9+35
> or anywhere  -- but of course I haven't found a signal around here that
has
> bent the S-meter yet, either, although on 75 meters at night there are
some
> VERY strong signals :-)
>
> If this is indeed an "adjustment" in the radio, then maybe T-T will
provide
> some guidance on RF-Squared about how to solve the problem.  Maybe I just
> got lucky.
>
> > what is needed I wish that all the buttons like NR, NB,
> > RFgain,MIC gain,Comp etc. could be used differently. Now is
> > more like going from one to another and then back.
> > That should be easy to implement.
>
> The real question is, what do you mean by "used differently"?  It seems
that
> every buyer wants to re-engineer the radio in some way or other (and
> everyone seems to have different hot "buttons", so to speak).  Perhaps a
> larger front panel with another dozen knobs :-)
>
> Grant/NQ5T
>
>
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