[TenTec] [Orion] O2 Tx audio quality

[Toby Pennington]

To one degree or another all the O2's sound this way,  and also 2056 on the
Classic Orion does not sound as good as on the V1 versions of software.

I have commented to a few O2 owners that their audio is not up to par with
the O1 audio that they used to have,  and invariably they will say they get
good reports.  But it has been my experience that unless you have RF or an
AC hum most of the guys you talk with will say the audio is good if you ask
them.  The O2 audio tends to sound like communications audio and does not
have the full robust sound of the Classic Orion. Sometimes the audio does
sound distorted and  somewhat mushy.  I have heard one or two O2 rigs that
sounded clean but just did not sound nearly as good as when the owners had
their O1s on the air.

I believe the problem is in the O2 and 2.0 code and not with the audio
board/  I hope everyone has reported this problem to ditsnbits.com.  Toby
W4CAK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <k6kdk at k6kdk.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] [Orion] O2 Tx audio quality


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ronald Gorski" <R.Gorski at Astronautics.com>
> To: "Ron Castro" <ronc at sonic.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 10:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [Orion] O2 Tx audio quality
>
>
> >>I heard another O2 user over the weekend who's audio sounded distorted,
> >>but since I was just getting ready to leave the house I didn't have a
> >>chance to talk to him.  If I run into him again (he's usually around on
75
> >>at night) I'll see if I can get an idea about what might be causing his
> >>problem, and report it back here.
> >
> > Please do. I think there are more of us out there. I am starting to
think
> > that there may be a hardware problem with the audio board.
> > 73, Ron
> >
> >>Ron N6AHA
>
> Ron,   Yes, there are more of you out there.. I just had QSO w/ N9AU
running a O2 (worst audio I ever heard!), last night QSO w/ W6FE, with same
breakup on peaks, he was also running O2.  This is exactly same audio break
up you get if you run an O1 and load Ver 2.055.  But of course if you have
O1 you just cure it by going back to Ver 1.371, if you have O2 I don't know
what you do about it. Most are handling the frustration by talking
themselves into... "must be some sort of RF in the shack".. hihi...
>
> -Dan
>
>
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