[TenTec] Orion2 Anomaly w/MK2R+

[Larry Menzel]

Neal,

I'm using the same setup and I have never experienced anything near what you 
describe.

Please send this question to the microHAM reflector.  I suspect that Joe or 
Jozef will have an answer for you.

Larry, N0XB




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neal Campbell K3NC" <nealk3nc at gmail.com>
To: <microHAM at yahoogroups.com>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" 
<tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:17 AM
Subject: [TenTec] Orion2 Anomaly w/MK2R+


>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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