[TenTec] [Orion] Orion II Noise Blankers

[Ron Castro]

Find a free "hex editor" if you don't have one already, and simply open the 
file with it.  You'll see a neatly laid-out, extremely long but totally 
incomprehensible matrix of hex numbers.  It goes on for thousands of lines. 
Here is a link to a free hex editor:

http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm

It goes without saying, don't change anything in the file if you plan on 
uploading that particular copy of it in the future.

BTW, there may come a time when information comes from TT or someone who 
really understands this stuff, to customize the radio on your own by editing 
the firmware.  I recently used a hex editor to "hack" the firmware on my 
Motorola cell phone, which actually is a software-defined-radio of sorts, to 
fix a couple of annoying problems involving low volume.  All the info to do 
that was on the Internet.

Ron N6AHA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sinisa Hristov" <shristov at ptt.yu>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] [Orion] Orion II Noise Blankers


> Ron Castro wrote:
>
>> If you ever have some time on your hands, you should open one of the .ruf
>> files with a hex editor.  You'll quickly see why they didn't want to do a
>> line-by-line re-write for the new version O1 version.
>
>
> How does one see it?
>
>
> 73,
>
> Sinisa YT1NT, VE3EA
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