[TenTec] My new ORION

[wq7x@cox.net]

Grant,
I'm glad that you have made your point of view so logical.
Hard to dispute the facts.

Thanks guys for all your comments. It is helpfull. I just need the new 
version of firmware. Another two months or so.
Best 73! Mark WQ7x
At 01:32 AM 5/24/2005, you wrote:
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> > 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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