[TenTec] Orion at Field Day

[John]

Very nice news article.  The equipment looked very sophisticated , I am sure 
it will be an eye opener to non hams.  carry on !   John kb2huk
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Castro" <ronc at sonic.net>
To: "Ten Tec List" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 2:55 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Orion at Field Day


>I upgraded an Orion to v. 1.373b5 to run in our Field Day event this year 
>with the Redwood Empire DX Assn. and the Marin Amateur Radio Society.  You 
>can see an interesting newspaper article published in yesterday's Marin 
>Independent Journal with a picture of me operating the Orion at 
>www.N6IE.com!
>
> The rig with the updated firmware was much improved over the previous 
> original version although I don't recall which one was in it before.  Last 
> year, there were reports of crashing at least once per hour or more.  This 
> time, running all SSB and over 1,000 QSO's, we had only two lock-ups 
> during the course of the event.  I suspect that the newest v. 2.x is 
> better and advised the rig's owner to do the hardware mod and upgrade.
>
>                     Ron N6IE
>                www.N6IE.com
>
>
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