[TenTec] DDS PTO replacement for old Ten Tec rigs

[Reed Krenn]

Doug Smith was a contract engineer who was the principal designer of the
Ten Tec Orion.

http://www.tentecwiki.org/webarchive/orion/

Reed / WW3A

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 12:10 PM, lstoskopf at cox.net lstoskopf at cox.net <
lstoskopf at cox.net> wrote:

> Just remember that TT went to great lengths to have pure LOs.  The Orion
> was a beast in making sure that the LO was as good as the time allowed.
> Wonder what engineers designed that.  Never have heard the story.  Don't
> expect some cheap DDS to do as well.  It would be fun to compare a well
> built analog VFO to cheaper DDS as far as clean signals are important.  Of
> course,  your application may not require extreme close in performance and
> you will be perfectly happy.  That's what this hobby is all about.  N0UU
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