[TenTec] V2.061f Issues

[Ron Castro]

The sidetone on 2.039d sounds pretty decent.  I can hear a bit of an echo 
sounds and something that sounds a bit like scissors snipping when I have 
the phones set to list to both the Main and Sub receivers and CW Rise/Fall 
is > 4.  It gets stronger as you got to 10 ms.  Not really all that 
bothersome.

I don't hear any distortion on sound peaks on the O2.

                     Ron  N6IE
                www.N6IE.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Merle Bone" <merlebone at charter.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 8:54 PM
Subject: [TenTec] V2.061f Issues


>I ran V2.062f for about a day and then went back to V1.373b5. A lot of 
>progress has been made with issues in the V2 firmware. However, although 
>the "big pop" is no longer at the end of each code element on the CW 
>sidetone, there is a "raspy sound" that sounds like an "AGC tail." I slowed 
>the CW down to 3WPM and you can clearly hear the "rasp" at the end of each 
>code element (At higher speeds it just sounds "noisy."). I wonder if this 
>is also on the Orion II sidetone or if it is unique to the Orion?
>
> Also, on receive, I hear a very grating distortion on "sound peaks," 
> particularly on noise peaks. The higher the system gain, the worse the 
> distortion gets. So if you turn off the preamp, the distortion is 
> reduced - but not eliminated. The combination of the distortion on receive 
> and the "raspy sound" at the end of each code element on the sidetone just 
> "wore me out" after a number of hours of operation.
>
> Hoping for a "simple" resolution to these two issues.
> 73, Merle - W0EWM
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