[TenTec] Orion II Firmware Status Update April 23

[Rsoifer at aol.com]

John,
 
Many thanks for the update.
 
I am primarily a CW operator, and as such I find the waterfall display in  
v2.041XT very useful.  It is very fast, keeping up with the  sender's CW to 
within less than a second.  In contrast, I find the  spectrum display to be 
pretty to look at but useless as an operating aid.
 
I also find myself keeping the RF AGC on all the time, rather than the AF  
AGC.
 
So, please count this as a user's vote for keeping the waterfall, even if  
that means delaying work on AF AGC until a later version.
 
Tnx & 73,
 
Ray W2RS
 
 
In a message dated 4/24/2010 3:26:18 A.M. GMT Standard Time,  
jhenry at tentec.com writes:

In an  effort to keep our customers up to date, I am reporting the
status for the  Orion II firmware as to today's date.

Due to the time it would take to  resolve all of the issues found by
internal testing and by beta testing in  the 2.042 base firmware, we
decided to revert back to the previous release  2.039D, and make
improvements to it as requested by our customers. This  release is now
in beta test, and will undergo a few modifications again  early next
week.

This release will not contain the changes for AF  AGC nor will it
contain the waterfall display. The combination of these two  items
caused a large number of issues within the beta firmware of the  2.041
and 2.042 releases. Therefore we decided to hold off on  releasing
those two features to the public. In the meantime we have  combined our
internal problem tracking and improvement opportunities as  identified
by others, even as late as this week, and generate a new beta  based on
2.039D.

Pending beta testing inputs this weekend, we will  determine what our
next course of action for this release will  be.

We appreciate everyone's patience, as we are dedicated to  providing
quality firmware updates for our  customers.

Thanks,
TenTec Engineering
John Henry

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