[TenTec] Orion at Field Day

[Ron Castro]

That's good to note that 2.062a works so well under contest conditions. 
I'll pass that on to the rig's owner, N6CT.

BTW, we ran 3A at W6KB with a 4-element Steppir at 55', a 2-element Steppir 
at 55', and 2-element "shorty forty" at 60', inverted V's on each 75 and 80 
meters, and a Butternut vertical on 80/40 with radials right in the San 
Francisco Bay water, all looking over the water to the east.  Played real 
nice!

                     Ron N6IE
                www.N6IE.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Moreschi" <n4py at arrl.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion at Field Day


> 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