[TenTec] Orion II tuning questions

[Stuart Rohre]

This thread has revealed the "dirty little secret" of ANY digital 
microcomputer controlled radio:  You give up some simultaneous functions 
when you go to a serially controlled, clocked, and programmed control
routine.  I had not thought about the independence of the controls of all my 
analog radios before; but they are truly pretty independent processes.  But 
any radio with "soft" controls and encoders; all going back to some finite 
delay programmed step software; is going to lack the ability to do 
everything at once.

Thus, radios are going to be either of one kind or the other; and you will 
have to live with the nature of control programming, and accept some minute 
delay, until things settle down or an interrupt can be serviced in the 
priority it was assigned by the program.  Not a show stopper but a new way 
of operating for some, I guess.  Frankly, I am with the person who just trys 
to send CW without turning over the coffee cup.

Interesting observations about the limits of digital based radios!

73,
Stuart
K5KVH