[TenTec] LDG tuner in O II?

[Carl Moreschi]

I don't know any specifics for the LDG internal Orion tuner.  Buit I am
quite familar with the LDG AT-200PC tuner.  This tuner has built in memories
that allow all the tuner settings to be saved by frequency.  There are
several thousand memory slots to save the tuner settings.  The slots are
spaced closely at the lower frequencies and are spread more widely at the
higher frequencies.  This allows the slots to be very optimized by
frequency.  Once you have tuned the tuner on a particular frequency, that
setting is saved in the appropriate memory slot.  My N4PY program keeps
track of what frequency slots are saved in the tuner.  When you return to a
frequency, this slot can be used to restore the frequency setting without
the need to transmit.  This makes the AT-200PC and ideal external tuner to
use with many radios and my N4PY software.


Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC 28635
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From: "Ken Brown" <ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] LDG tuner in O II?


> Sounds like a good method to me. I am curious about the LDG tuner. I
> presume the LDG has a built in frequency counter to address tuning
> memories for each frequency, or does it use a data connection from the
> transceiver to tell it what frequency to tune to when using memory
> tuning? In either case what is the frequency resolution? In other words,
> if you were to tune it at 3.505 kHz and then again at 3.506 kHz, would
> it actually store two separate tuning settings, or would the first one
> at 3.505 get overwritten because the two are the same frequency when
> described with a resolution of 10 kHz? Also, how many memories does it
> have? Is the frequency resolution the same for all bands? It would make
> sense to me to use smaller resolution on the lower bands. You might need
> five different tunings to cover 80/75 meters and only two each for 20 or
> 15 meters.  If there is plenty of memory available it wouldn't matter.
>
> DE N6KB
> >  I did above initial tuning every 10 or 20 KHz across
> >  each
> > band.
> >
> > Then in 'normal' radio use and when changing bands or moving across a
> >  band,
> > I 'tap' the Orion's Tune button. The LDG tuner quickly tunes (by
> >  recalling
> > the match parameters from its memory) to the predetermined setting near
> >  or
> > on that frequency in its memory.
> >
>
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