[TenTec] Orion at Field Day

[Carl Moreschi]

Both my Omni VII and Orion were used at field day.  Each radio made about
1000 QSO's. They both performed flawlessly and handled the excessive QRM
beautifully.  80 percent of our QSO's were made on CW.  We had 2 dipoles
each for 80, 40 and 20 meters.  We used the 40 meter dipoles also on 15
meters.  We were at a site with a 120 foot fire tower.  So we used the fire
tower to support most of the dipoles.  We had 2 dipoles for each band at
right angles to each other.  We did this to avoid the null off the end of
the dipoles.  I would call CQ on an east-west dipole and stay with that
antenna until I did not get an answer to a CQ then switch to the other.
This technique caused us to be on the best antenna favoring the propagation
direction at all times.

My Orion had firmware 2.062a in at and performed perfectly.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC 28635
----- 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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