[TenTec] Orion 1 & 2 "Talk Power" problem

[Carl Moreschi]

In a DX pileup, the strong gravelly sound of heavy speech processing is
essential to break a pileup.  Rag chewing vs DX'ing pileups for rare
stations require very different audio setups.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC 28635
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis OConnor" <ad4hk2004 at yahoo.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 11:31 AM
Subject: [TenTec] Orion 1 & 2 "Talk Power" problem


> Well, if you are happy, I am happy... And what I am going to say is not
rebuttal to you, etc., but simply how I see the issue...
>
>   Other than maybe the "drive it till it howls to work dx" issue, I simply
do not understand the need...  For those who just 'have' to see the meters
on the amp stand up there, change to FM!  Or change the shunt on the meter
so it pins on every syllable...
>
>   I go way back... I have tried/used/heard/discarded: clippers,
compressors, supermodulators, RF processors, and on, and on, over the past
40+ years... I have a shelf full of what are collectors items... Datong, you
name it...
>   Do we walk around with a DSP and a speaker for having a conversation
with our friends, spouse, boss, so that our voice is loud?  If we did our
pool of friends would thin out rapidly...
>   Speech has a normal dynamic range, that is the ratio of the peaks to the
valleys... If the signal is audible in my receiver and I want it louder I
turn up my audio...
>   Many of the phone signals on the bands <makes me glad I am mostly CW)
are atrocious...  Oh yeah, they are "loud", but so is a jack hammer, and
just about as pleasant to listen to...
>   And no, I am not one of the 10KC wide, super hi-fi crowd...
>   OK, I'm off the soap box, some one elses turn...
>
>   Cheers  ...  denny / k8do
>
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