[TenTec] Help with Digital Modes on Orion II

[Gregory J. Knapp]

Ray/others,

Please excuse my ignorance, but:
 - 1.  If I use the supplied audio cable to directly connect the Orion II to
the computer, is there any danger to the Orion in doing so (as in wrong
voltages blowing up the Orion)?
 - 2.  How do I key the transmit on the Orion?  Do I use the vox? Does that
work on the line input? Or connect something else between the computer and
the rig? Where to where? Or do I do it all manually, flipping some switch
every time I want to transmit? (I do have the serial cable hooked up between
the Orion I and the computer because I use the N4PY control SW about half
the time.
 - 3. If I can operate directly as you are doing, why do people feel obliged
to hook up the $50 to $300 interface boxes? 

Greg, N6GK


Snip:  You don't need a TNC or interface box to do RTTY.  The supplied audio
cable, 
and a computer running MMTTY or similar software, will work just fine.

73,

Ray W2RS
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