[TenTec] Orion (I) bandscope locking up

[Zivney, Terry L.]

I have been using my original Orion for some years now and (after the first week) have never had
the problem of the radio going dead (no signals heard on open band) until this past ARRL DX fone
contest weekend.  I'm using 1.372  because it has always worked  great and the speech processing
is superb.
 
But, I did something I've never done before.  Because of some crackling sounds on one beverage
antenna, I used the software NB (which did a superb job of making things totally readable on 160m)
in conjunction with the speech processor and the band scope.  It probably locked up a half dozen
times over the weekend. A quick power off/power on cycle always cleared things up.  BTW, I had
done a master reset before the contest started. Sometimes, but I'm not sure about everytime, I
also had the software NR button feature on, which helped in pulling out those incredibly weak
staions on 10m.
 
Still very happy, and no intention on upgrading to another version of the software at this time.
 
Terry Zivney, N4TZ/9