[TenTec] Jupiter, OMNI

[Alan Sewell N5NA]

Here is an excerpt of a post John Henry made last week on the Omni VII 
Yahoo! Group concerning the Jupiter.

"New one's shipped will now have a more crisp easier to read display, 
and also a larger memory. What does this mean? Means we can do things 
like we have done in the OMNI-VII, and give it more "personalities". The 
main personality we were showing at the Hamfest was the CW-Decoder 
personality. This mode provides much narrower CW filters than were 
previously available, and a CW Decoder that displays the received CW 
characters, and will also allow you to transmit using a PS/2 keyboard 
plugged into the back of the Jupiter. We will build up "personality" 
modules that you will be able to program into the larger memory Jupiter, 
up to 6 of them can reside in the larger memory chip at a single time. 
You will also be able to take these same "personalities" and program 
them one at a time into the existing Jupiter memory chip. So existing 
Jupiter owners will benefit from the more highly tuned mode specific 
personality software that the larger chip will provide. Only difference 
is that with the larger memory chip (which will be offered as an upgrade 
to existing Jupiter owners), you will be able to press a couple of 
buttons and jump from personality to personality. With the existing 
memory chip you will need to reprogram one
personality to be used at a time. meaning that a true CW op will be able 
to run more finely tuned CW algorithms, better filters, etc. (which will 
still support sideband modes for those who split cw/sb). Or they can 
jump back to the existing Jupiter fully functional firmware.  I hope 
that's understood.

Either the smaller existing chip or the larger memory chip can be used 
in existing Jupters, the chip will be available as an upgrade option. 
Pop the top/bottom off, pull the DIP part out (no soldering), and place 
the new part in its place, then program into it the personalities you 
want. Thinking of a next personality for more optimized voice modes. 
Others are still tbd."

73,

Alan  N5NA

Henry Mackey wrote:
> Yes Larry,
>
> It has been noted by yours truly, and I am anxiously awaiting further information. Look at this: http://www.tentec.com/news/a-day-of-news. I will give you some of the information, but this info is just for new rigs shipping after June 1. Just how this new stuff will drift on to our now older models is yet to be known to us. 
>
> 73 de Henry/ N9HM
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Rockne" <wa7hdz at clearwire.net>
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:45:34 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
> Subject: [TenTec] Jupiter, OMNI
>
> Looks like some exciting things are happening for the Jupiter and OMNI VII in the next month.
> I own a Jupiter and some of the improvements a reversible Blue/Grey display, CW encoder/decoder.
> Is anyone else aware of this? 
>
>                              Larry WA7HDZ
>
>