[TenTec] Orion and O II Firmware Update?

[John]

Nope.......still inferior to original v1 firmware.  The AGC was moved to a 
different point in the loop in v2.

73 John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <waltk8cv4612amos at att.net>
To: "TenTec Reflector" <tentec at contesting.com>; "John" <fraz1 at bellsouth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion and O II Firmware Update?


> Now let me see, wasn't there some post on that ? Yeah, some guy named Ron
> Castro, lets see what he said ?
>
> The AGC takes some playing with to get the way it sounds best to you. Just
> remember the default Hang setting is 00.00, which sounds DISTORTED. Put at
> least .04 to .12 seconds hang time and it will smooth right out.
>
> There you have it, right from the horses mouth!
>
> http://www.n6ie.com
>
> Walt K8CV Royal Oak, MI.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>
>
> From: "John" <fraz1 at bellsouth.net>
> To: <waltk8cv4612amos at att.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
> <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion and O II Firmware Update?
>
>
>> Walt....
>>
>> My wish is simply that can make the AGC change.  My original Orion is
>> superior to my Orion II in that regard.  Others agree.  I believe TT must
>> also, as they are pushing that as the one of the bigger changes coming in
>> the upgrade now in beta testing.
>>
>> 73 John K4NP
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <waltk8cv4612amos at att.net>
>> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:20 AM
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion and O II Firmware Update?
>>
>>
>>> IF you watch what is being upgraded or put into the software it is 
>>> fringe
>>> stuff ! The basic cw and ssb works fine as is ! Now if you want to type
>>> and
>>> have it send and receive some weird keyboard mode that nobody but a few
>>> weirdoes want to use you will have to wait until they poke it into the
>>> software in a year or so :-) I don't think I use a quarter of the
>>> FEATURES
>>> in my ORION II thingy and never will but it is a GREAT cw / ssb receiver
>>> and
>>> so is my K-3 as it is :-) The tentec reflector guys seem to want some
>>> kind
>>> of water fall display or something and I have that FEATURE turned off 
>>> any
>>> way, oh poor me , woes me, how stupid I am !! ..................... duh
>>> !!
>>>
>>> Walt K8CV Royal Oak, MI.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Martin Sole" <msole at loxinfo.co.th>
>>> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:29 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion and O II Firmware Update?
>>>
>>>
>>>> As I understand this is necessary to fix whatever it was they broke in
>>>> the previous release. Which I think nicely proves my point about why
>>>> Ten-Tec will not do that it's a lesson they probably learned with 
>>>> V1.xxx
>>>> and V2.xxx. I think it will become more common though, especially at 
>>>> the
>>>> consumer level. If people are happy with it. Tinkerers, yes, appliance
>>>> ops who want what their buddy says is a great rig, maybe, guys who want
>>>> to pay and go, possibly not. Don't get me wrong I have been following
>>>> the K3 story since the Visalia launch and am almost decided to get one.
>>>> I do like a lot of the things about the radio I'm not sure though that 
>>>> I
>>>> can really feel comfortable with a radio that gets better incrementally
>>>> until after what, 5, maybe ten years from now it is where my
>>>> expectations are today. That would just make me grumpy.
>>>>
>>>> I work for a small part of a very large organisation whose ethos is
>>>> 'right FIRST time' but then the military don't like to be beta testers
>>>> as a rule. I'm still curious to know how they are going to make all 
>>>> this
>>>> software engineering effort pay.
>>>>
>>>> Martin, HS0ZED
>>>>
>>>> fraz1 wrote:
>>>>> Hi Martin:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ssssssh!  Please don't tell Elecraft.  They're doing it in months,
>>>>> weeks,
>>>>> and days!
>>>>>
>>>>> 73 John K4NP
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