[TenTec] New software

Rsoifer at aol.com Rsoifer at aol.com
Sun Jun 6 10:45:45 PDT 2010


Hi Kim,
 
Go to _www.tentec.com_ (http://www.tentec.com) , and click on  
"Announcement New Orion iI Firmware."  
 
 
In a message dated 6/6/2010 4:21:18 P.M. GMT Standard Time,  
cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net writes:

Where  did they note this? I can't seem to find it...

Kim N5OP

At 12:34  PM 6/5/2010, you wrote:
>I see that T-T has posted a comment about the  NR.  My own experience,  
that
>using a high setting of NR (9)  and an AGC slope of 1:10 reduces the 
popping
>  and distortion, is  in line with their comment.  However, it still seems 
to
>  me  that the new NR needs some more "fine tuning."
>
>I've set the  sidetone level to 30 and it sounds pretty good with my 400  
Hz
>tone.
>
>73,
>
>
>
>
>In a  message dated 6/5/2010 3:03:23 P.M. GMT Standard Time,  
w5pny at arrl.net
>writes:
>
>
>There are a number of  things I like about 2.043B -- one seems  to be
>that the CAT  interface seems a tab more robust.  I might just  be
>dreaming  it, but I've written a number of programs for my Orion  II
>that  use the CAT interface and one problem has always been that
>if  one  is sending a long sequence of commands that don't generate
>responses  to  the Orion, some of the commands are not executed
>by the  Orion.   Increasing the delay between commands helps, the
>the  delays required seem  to vary in not so predictable ways.
>That  problem SEEMS to be better than  with 2.039d.
>
>BUT -- I  really really dislike to new NR algorithm --  particularly
>as it  affects the side-tone, even with the NR off.  After  a  couple
>days of operating with 2.043B, I finally had enough and   went
>back to 2.039d.  It seems to me the new NR algorithm is  doing  things
>even when NR is off...  I hope the next release  either reverts  to
>the old NR algorithm or gives the user a choice  of which one he  wants.
>In any case, the side-tone is atrocious  unless kept at very low  levels
>and/or NR is invoked at fairly  high levels.  For those of us  in
>very quiet locations, that  drives me nuts.
>
>73,
>Harry,  W5PNY
>
>
>
>--
>
>Harry G.   McGavran, Jr.
>
>E-mail:   w5pny at arrl.net
>
>
>
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