[TenTec] New Orion I v2 Firmware version: 2.062a

[chip_brown at isp.com]

Hi Guys--  What are the chances you could make a couple of .wav files that
illustrate the effect and a clean example.  Please include the audio
source you are recording (line, speaker, phones) and your settings.

Thanks

Chip Brown KR1P

PS maybe Berry could put them on his site





 Buck (K4IA) said:
> " Very tinny, very low fidelity with a tendency to add a  click at the
> end.  That is what 2.062a sidetone sounds
> like to me. "
>
> "On my radio, the raspy CW is particularly bad with Fast AGC and  narrow
> bandwidths (<1khz).  It is starting to sound like the DSP in an  ICOM
> 756Prox."
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I am hearing similar "distortion" on both weaker CW signals and on the CW
> sidetone note. Although the sidetone note is much better then it was in
> the previous release, it still has a very annoying noise at the end of
> each element - particularly identifiable when you slow down the code to 3
> or 4 words per minute. At higher speeds is just sounds like a "repetitive
> noise." In my case the sound gets worse as the audio gain is increased - I
> can raise the signal audio with an external audio amp without raising the
> level of the noise. If I raise the audio level of the Orion the noise
> signal comes way up. I worked with Ten-Tec but they could not duplicate
> the problem. They offered that I could send the Orion in to be worked on,
> but I just went back to V1.373b5 - which has no such sound on the keying
> sidetone.
>
> The CW distortion is worse on weak signals - maybe correlated with maximum
> gain in the DSP/IF chain. Again I really don't hear that
> distortion/fuzziness on V1.373b5. I sure would like to get on to the new
> V2 firmware - and a lot of progress seems to have been made - but this
> audio distortion is really distracting when you work something like the
> WPX for several hours.  I'm back at V1.373b5 and hoping Ten-Tec will keep
> working on the V2 code.
> 73, Merle - W0EWM
>
>
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