[TenTec] O2_CW_SEND1_PROBLEM

[John Nason / NA9U]

I have Orion II with 2.030.  No white dot but yes I
drop characters on SEND1, 2 and 3.  It is intermittent
and I never know when its going to happen. Seems like
the send buttons don't have a high enough priority to
the processor.  

73,
John NA9U

--- George K <w2yj at highstream.net> wrote:

> I do a lot of contesting and DX'ing and what I have
> experienced with my new 
> O2 and not with my O1 is that I have my call stored
> in "SEND1". Every once 
> in a while when I press send1 to send my call it
> seems to miss the first few 
> characters of my call and I must scramble to send it
> by hand.
> I upgraded the firmware to 2.030 and it still
> happens.
> Has anyone else experienced this?
> Also, I noticed a small white dot just to the right
> of the STEP number 
> toward the right hand side of the digit. It may be a
> small thing but does 
> anyone else notice it? It takes a while when the
> sweep is on to appear. Turn 
> the rig off and back on and it's gone only to appear
> a while later. Look 
> closely at  the far right of the digit. It doesn't
> seem to pop up when the 
> sweep is off.
> I noticed the same thing on the display O2 at
> Orlando and mentioned it.
> George 
> 
> 
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