[TenTec] O2_CW_SEND1_PROBLEM

[John Nason / NA9U]

Lin,

Thanks!! A local ham who has an Orion II and I were
just discussing this noise that jumps up in the
headphones.  That makes three of us now.

I have only been able to get rid of the noise by
turning off the Orion and restarting.    

73, 
John NA9U

--- Lin Davis <linbdavis at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I also have the white dot next to the STEP value on
> my Orion II (2.030) using 
> COLOR 3.
> 
> I also have a rare problem with audio when selecting
> BinRX=Main (AUDIO Menu) and 
> is related to having NR and/or Notch on, as far as I
> can tell. With headphones, 
> audio turns into very loud "digital" noise which
> varies in intensity with the 
> sweep! When I pull the headphones plug out, the
> noise is present through the 
> speaker.
> 
> 73,
> Lin
> WB1AIW
> 
> John Nason / NA9U wrote:
> 
> > 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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