[TenTec] Orion II and 2.031 NR

[Douglas Shock]

Well, I am not sure Don. I liked the idea of the hung picel going away or
atleast that it isn;t a hardware issue. The sweep does appear to be better
at indicating signal location...still a bit off though.

The NR did work better on 2.030 IMHO. It didn't distort the incoming audio
like it does now.

I have gone back to 2.030 as I am unfortuate enough to be operating on a
very sub-optimal antenna and need to milk the rig for all it is worth.
2.031seems to have defeated that.

My TX did chage as well. I run a Heil pr40 into an 8band W2IHY and just the
night before a few locals worked with me on setting it up. Yesterday I
chatted with them and they still approved of the audio. 1 hour later after
the update they said my audio had changed but couldn;t put their finger on
it.

I also found that the speaker audio level requires more imput than 2.030did.

I went back to 2.030 and the nr seems to be orking better. Would I suggest
updating??? Nope...


On 3/2/06, Don and Diana Cunningham <wb5hak at duracom.net> wrote:
>
> Doug,
> I have not yet gone to the "new" firmware, just looking at what is said on
> here.  It hasn't been much, so far!!  I don't care for the NR on any of
> the
> versions I have seen, either with my original Orion or the O2.  It just
> seems to add distortion, with no assistance on noise at all.  I never went
> back further than 1.372 on the Orion, so don't know about the earlier
> versions.  I have had little success with my line noise and the NB either.
> I get excellent SSB audio reports on the O2, just like I did on the
> original
> one, but do have much different settings than what I used to run on the
> Orion.  I do have to run the mic gain high, in the neighborhood of 59 or
> so,
> so I will look into the pot under the rig as suggested.  Do you think the
> download is worth the trouble?
> 73,
> Don, WB5HAK
>
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