[TenTec] My new ORION

[Grant Youngman]

Whatever.




> Grant,
> 1.I'm talking about narrow dynamic range as well.
> Right now Orion will not handle week signal at 1kHz or 5kHz 
> spacing from the strong signal S9 +35dB. This is the fact.
> Everything is distorted-period.I'm not talking about 
> specification. This is real life test with 1.372 firmware.
> IC7800 will handle week signal under the same condition.
> I know -I did it.
> 2. Orion will handle week signals close to strong one perhaps 
> even better than IC7800 but only with different firmware. I 
> will not go back to 1.371 I will take  new one 2.0.
> 3. I don't care about your radio I care about majority of 
> Orion's with 1.372. This is known problem and Bill has 
> described it very well.
> 4. Everybody would prefer to turn the function ON or OFF with 
> one PUSH of the botton-this is normal way.
> You should not need to push "AN" first to get black backround 
> on it and than push it again to turn it "ON".
> 
> Also, tell me how many times do you have to turn the knob in 
> order to lower  the AGC treshold from 10uV to 0.37uV- is it 
> about 200 times? This needs to be corrected as well.
> Anybody else has this problem???
> 
> I like my radio but it has problems.Even Ten Tec will tell you that.
> Also,I'm sure that Ten Tec will improve ORION.
> But they need good feedback.
> If everything is so good like you are trying to tell 
> everybody, than why good number of ORION's was returned to 
> Ten Tec for refund. We need to help Ten Tec to stop this 
> trend. We will not do good job if we close our eyes and 
> pretend that everything is great.
> Ten Tec and Elecraft are the only two Co. that understand how 
> to design good RX. So, Ten Tec just needs to finish this great radio. 
> Mark WQ7X
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