[TenTec] Orion II NR with 2.031

[Henrik Weiss]

And you dont have any distortion on signals ?

Cause I am.

73 - Henrik
OZ1ING


Douglas Shock <douglas.shock at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I have spent the last 4 hours working with release
> 2.031 and my
> impressions are far different of the NR capability than when
> it first came
> out.
> 
> 
> 
> My receive antenna is a rain gutter. The band of choice for
> week signals
> today is 40m.  I have several CW signals in the noise floor
> so NR is very
> important.
> 
> 
> 
> My observations are that it actually works very
> well...however there is
> little to no room for error on extracting the weak signal
> from the noise
> floor. So you better be sure the sig is zero-beat to your
> passband or forget
> it.  I found that 4 works for most of the cases but not all
> the time. I also
> found that it seems to work better when the BW is as narrow
> as possible.
> 
> 
> 
> Once engaged, the noise floor drops immediately...very nice.
> On loud
> signals, s3 or better, the NR actually enhances the
> signal...very nice copy
> indeed.
> 
> 
> 
> So overall...the TX audio reports have been exceptional
> while running the
> Heil FR-40 via the W2IHY 8 band EQ once I made the correct
> adjustments to
> compensate for undocumented changes.
> 
> 
> 
> NR actually does work once you figure out how to dial it
> in...This dialing
> it in does appear to have changed since 2.030. Not sure why
> but needless to
> say...it still works and even better. Going back and forth
> from 2.030 and
> 2.031, the noise floor levels drop significantly on 2.031
> when compared to
> 2.030. Not absolute yet but TenTec is certainly back in the
> right direction.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I wish my observations could be more scientific with scopes
> and analyzers
> but it is what it is...my observation.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Catch yea on the air!
> 
> 
> 
> Doug / K0ZU
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