[TenTec] Orion2 Anomaly w/MK2R+

[Neal Campbell K3NC]

I swapped my Orion for a O2 at christmas as well as got a MK2R+ which  
is a tremendous upgrade of the shack! The MK2R+ is connected to the  
Microham Band Decoder just so you have a full understanding of the  
setup.

I am having a strange thing occur when using this setup with Writelog  
and Win-Test (have not tried it out in general operating modes yet).  
It seems that very soon after establishing the contest program and  
setting things up, the Orion 2 will somehow "reset" to frequency  
0000.00. Sometimes I can just punch the band button to return to  
where I was before the "reset", sometimes I cannot. I have noticed  
that sometimes it apparently scrambles the internal memory of the O2,  
as i can go into the menu and the settings will be corrupted (well  
actually the setting titles, the settings themselves I am not sure  
of). In this case, a power recycle restores things (and it will  
sometimes do the "reset" again.

I cannot tell if this is an artifact of the MK2R+ or the O2.

I also have seen a variation where it appears that the rig will  
revert to another band-stacked setting (which is usually at the  
beginning of the band in question, like 14000.00 for 20m).

I am running the latest on both the O2 as well as the MK2R+.

Any ideas?


Neal Campbell K3NC
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