[TenTec] serious filter problem with Orion II

[Tõnno Vähk]

Thank you guys for suggestions,

I will be in my QTH again in a few weeks and will check the taps and do the resets and will let you know if that will take care of the problem. Maybe will reinstall the firmware also. This problem happened almost every time we touched the BW control already by the end of the contest.

And Bill, your MP is rocking and as I said I cannot say OII is better:) The roofing filter is so essential for MP. Having that installed the MP is definitely less noisy and much more pleasant to work at than OII. Once I get the filter problem fixed I will have to do a lot of weak signal A/B testing and play around with OII controls to figure out if it has any adventage or not.

73
Tonno
ES5TV

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill Tippett
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 2:34 PM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] serious filter problem with Orion II

K7HP wrote:

 >Try checking where you have the taps set under FILTER.

         Exactly.  After playing with the Taps setting, I leave mine permanently set on the default 199.
Lower Taps setting can cause the DSP filter to have multiple peaks out of the nominal passband.  Although they are 20-30 dB down from the nominal passband, you will still hear them in a crowded situation like CQ 160.

                                 73,  Bill

P.S.  Tonno I hope you are taking good care of my old MP!  ;-)

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