[TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? Red Scan With VerticalLinePatterns
BOB@W2PNJ
bobw2pnj at optimum.net
Sun Mar 8 17:33:33 PDT 2009
RON,Why hasn't TEN-TEC mentioned this in their "Orion II What's New!" in
version 2.041 XL.... Bob w2pnj at arrl.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Castro" <ronc at sonic.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? Red Scan With
VerticalLinePatterns
> Jim: That's exactly what I am seeing and what I believe has been
> described
> by others. The 'spectrum trace' red (which is a peak-hold trace) is all
> you're supposed to see and is one of the improvements over the previous
> versions.
>
> Ron N6IE
> www.N6IE.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim M." <jmiller1706 at cfl.rr.com>
> To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 2:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? Red Scan With Vertical
> LinePatterns
>
>
>> The radio had been running on Rx for a few hours, 20 and 80 meters. The
>> 80m
>> band was dead, mostly just local line noise.
>>
>> I am now getting the normal white spectrum, but now behind it the entire
>> scan screen (up to the blue marker, is filled with red, first solid red,
>> then alternating red/black that starts at the top and walks downward,
>> then
>> solid red again. Occasionally the white spectrum trace will wipe itself
>> away from right to left. Is this what you folks are seeing, or is this
>> new?
>> By turning sweep off and on again it began working correctly.
>>
>> Previously I had only seen this as a brief red spectrum trace (the white
>> trace disappears for a half second or so), and I thought this was what
>> you
>> were seeing. Just before this new phenomenon started, I was tuning and
>> happened to catch the spectrum in a "red only" trace...and it froze in
>> all
>> red color as long as I would turn the tuning knob.
>>
>> I took some photos at: http://s685.photobucket.com/albums/vv219/N4BE/
>>
>> Jim N4BE
>>
>>
>>
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