[TenTec] Question

[Bruce Beard]

It is good to hear that Spectravue has the offsets figured out. That drove me crazy when I used an SDR IQ with my Orion II a few years ago and they hadn't figured it out.
I believe that with the N4PY software and an antenna dedicated to the SDRIQ you don't actually need to pull the IF out of the Orion. It will just follow the Orion along as you tune showing you the signals on the band. You need to see it to believe how nice  it is.
N4PY's  software is a great addition to the rig and with the SDRIQ as a panadapter..... wow.

Bruce Beard
AB1KC
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On Oct 7, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Floyd Sense <floyd at k8ac.net> wrote:

> I wouldn't call any of the panadaptor approaches "plug and play",  but 
> it does work just fine. You will of course need the IF tap on the Orion 
> II and that's well documented.  Currently, I'm using SpectraVue with 
> SDR-IQ and my Orion II and use DXLab for logging and frequency control.  
> So, mousing on a signal on the panadaptor sets the Orion to that 
> frequency and DXLab picks up the frequency as well.  When the Orion is 
> tuned, DXLab and SpectraVue both follow along.  I use com port sharing 
> software that allows DXLab and SpectraVue to both communicate with the 
> Orion over the same com port.  I'm away from the station this week, so 
> can't tell you the name of the port sharing software.  I tried a few 
> different programs for that function and found that some do a poor job 
> of managing the rig traffic, while the one I use does it perfectly.  
> This one is free, where others I tried were rather expensive considering 
> they worked poorly.
> 
> One important aspect is getting the Orion frequency offsets right for 
> the mode you're using and both SpectraVue and the N4PY software do that 
> correctly.  I've found SpectraVue to be extremely stable on my Windows 7 
> system, where the program I previously used (PowerSDR/IF) was very 
> unstable and frequently locked up my system.
> 
> Before the Orion II, my rig was a K3 with P3 panadaptor and while the P3 
> was quite impressive, I find the SDR-IQ/SpectraVue combination to be a 
> superior approach (and the Orion II to be superior to the K3).
> 
> 
> 73, Floyd - K8AC
> 
> On 10/7/2011 6:47 PM, John Molenda wrote:
>> Will SDR IQ   run with the Orion II plug and play ?  There ad does not
>> mention Ten Tec equipment .  thanks  John kb2huk
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