[TenTec] Orion receiver sensitivity

Barry N1EU barry.n1eu at gmail.com
Tue May 12 16:03:37 PDT 2009


Do the main and sub receivers have same lack of sensitivity on the
problem Orion?

Barry N1EU

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Rick Dougherty NQ4I
<nq4i at contesting.com> wrote:
> Hi Jack...the test was on ssb, and to my knowledge the filters are not
> centered...a third Orion had similar results...one is not...thanks de Rick
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:13 PM, jack User <jfriend31 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> are your filters centered?
>> jack
>> ak7o
>>
>> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 16:13 -0400, Rick Dougherty NQ4I wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all...kinda new on here..I now have 4 Orion's and a few more on the
>> > way...today listening on 20m, one Orion was not hearing an Eu station at
>> the
>> > same signal level, in fact it was about 20 db down from the second radio
>> on
>> > the band..at first I started thinking that the large 20m stack had a
>> > problem...but put the antennas in the back of both radios and did a/b
>> > antenna comparisons...so the stacks are working ok...so I moved the radio
>> to
>> > the 80m station and took the 80m Orion and put it in the second 20m
>> > place...now the two radios are hearing very close to the same
>> levels...and
>> > now the radio that was moved to 80m is about 20db down from a FT-1000D
>> that
>> > is also on the same band...is there a problem here??
>> >
>> > Thanks de Rick NQ4I
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