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

[Ron Castro]

Different sounds for different purposes.  I have found that even subtle 
changes in a pile-up can make you stand out enough to be heard.  One more 
click on the SP, a little better shape on the EQ, pointing the beam a few 
more degrees, making sure the amp is tuned...it all adds up!  For rag-chew 
with good signals like we usually get on 75 meters at night, then fidelity 
is the name of the game.

That is what is so nice about the current crop of equipment available at 
reasonable prices...you can change from one extreme to another with just a 
few adjustments. Things have come a long way since the days of my old 
SB-100!

      Ron Castro
Chief Technical Officer
  Results Radio, LLC
          N6IE
 www.N6IE.com
(Formerly N6AHA)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis OConnor" <ad4hk2004 at yahoo.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 8:31 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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