[TenTec] Orion at Field Day

[Ron Castro]

Our Orion was connected to my laptop which was running N3FJP's Field Day 
Network 2.5 so that band changes tracked automatically.  That's where I 
screw up the most...forgetting to change the band/mode on the logging 
software if it's not automatic!

                     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: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion at Field Day


> 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"
> <tentec at contesting.com>
> 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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