[TenTec] Orion V2.060b Comments

[Merle Bone]

After five hours of calling the BS7 I have given up on V2.060b and gone back to V1.373b5. The click on the CW sidetone just wears you out after a few hours of sending CW. There still seems to be "gain distribution" issues with this release and a lot of gain is gone out of the system - making it hard to get enough audio and still keep sound peeks from overdriving the audio. Gain and AGC just don't seem to work together correctly. When you listen to V1.373b5 you really appreciate how well the Orion can really perform with high performance firmware. The screen doesn't look as good and no stacking register indicators but the line out audio is very good as well as the headphone audio and the CW sidetone. And all of the radio performance is great - with an occasional failure :-(
73, Merle - W0EWM