[TenTec] ORION II and FSK

[pfizenmayer]

Oh , might as well try an "Orion salute" = Master reset - or the whole 
shebang - maybe its little brain got scrambled.


Hank K7HP


battery ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Calvin" <ac5aa1 at gmail.com>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] ORION II and FSK


>I run FSK through my DigiKeyer a lot, and have not seen this offset.  Not
> sure what to suggest.
>
> 73, Duane
>
> Duane Calvin, AC5AA
> Austin, Texas
> www.ac5aa.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of David W LeJeune, Sr
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 7:06 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'
> Subject: [TenTec] ORION II and FSK
>
> This morning I decided to work RTTY and set up the Orion to Mode FSK as
> normal and fired it up.  I use MMTTY and key the FSK line via the EXTFSK
> 1.05 MMTTY plugin and a Rigblaster Pro interface.  Worked fine, but no one
> was answering.  Thought that was strange, so I fired up an aux receiver to
> make sure everything was keying fine.  I Normally use a bandwidth setting 
> of
> about 750 hz.  When I first got the Orion II, in the FSK mode, the 
> bandwidth
> was centered on 2125/2295 as displayed in the MMTTY waterfall display.
> Keying sounded OK on the aux receiver.
>
>
>
> Since I wasn't getting any answers, I changed the bandwidth to 1200 hz and
> fired off a CQ - and sure enough someone answered, but they were 170 hz 
> off
> frequency.  I use the RIT to bring them on freq and had a nice QSO.  Found
> that was normal - everyone else I contacted was 170 hz off, and lo and
> behold, the bandwidth was also off 170 hz - I corrected it in the display
> with the PBT and 170 brought it right back into center with the bandwidth
> narrowed again to 750.
>
>
>
> The manual says that in the FSK mode, the FSK signal is centered in the
> filter bandwidth.  Certainly not the case today, but I know it was
> previously.  What could have changed.  I was able to set things up 
> properly
> with RIT at +170 and PBT at +170, and I saved it as USER 1 profile.  So 
> easy
> enough to reset it.
>
>
>
> Anyone else had this experience?  When I first got the Orion II about 2
> years ago, both the RIT and the PBT were at 0, and the waterfall display 
> was
> perfectly aligned for 2125/2295 tones when I worked RTTY.  Note that this
> was with FSK keying with the MODE switch set to FSK, not AFSK with mode
> switch set to USB.
>
>
>
> Just curious.
>
>
>
> Dave WN5V
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
>
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
>
>