[TenTec] Orion at Field Day

[Carl Moreschi]

Both the Orion and Omni VII were used directly in local mode.  There was no
ethernet connection to the Omni VII.  We used CT for all our field day
logging.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC 28635
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David S. McCallum" <w7sac2 at cox.net>
To: <kd3jf at arrl.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
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Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion at Field Day


> Carl were you using the Omni Vll through a computer set up or just a basic
radio via a power supply?. Just wondering , Mac
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Paul Gates, KD3JF
> To: Carl Moreschi ; Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 5:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion at Field Day
>
>
> Carl, I did not participate in Field Day on Saturday but my YL and I went
to Fort McHenry national Park near Baltimore and "captured" a picnic table.
In fact we got there before the Park opened at 8AM. I clamped my MP1
vertical to the picnic table and threw the counterpoise under the picnic
table. Then hooked up my Elecraft KX1 with a Li-POL battery and we off. I
had figured that in the morning before Field Day I would make some contacts
with 3 watts. And sure enough I first worked a Tenn. station working CW of
course.
>
> It would have been super nice to have a Ten Tec Argo V but maybe that will
come in a few months.
>
> Carl Moreschi <n4py at arrl.net> wrote: 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"
> To: "Ten Tec List"
> 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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