[Trlog] Fw: [Orion] Couple of questions

[john, ke5c]

This happened twice while I was operating (about 16 hours total).  It's like
TR is getting bad data from the Orion.  Fortunately N5TW has lots of
protection and an Alpha which simply trips out very quickly when it sees the
high SWR.  VFOB was tuning the subreceiver when this happened.  The
transmitter was connected to VFOA, and the VFO lock was on.  This would be an
issue in a multiband contest where TR drives the antenna and bandpass
selection.  I've noticed the frequency display goes aways for several seconds
at a time, and this also suggest that communication is not rock-solid.

73, John

> I'll post more later on our experience using the Orion on the ARRL 160M
> contest later - it was great BTW...  But a couple of questions that come to
> mind now:
>
> First off, we had problems with TR not seeing the radio a times.   Didn't
> happen often enough to pin it down but seemed to happen when tuning the sub
> rx vfo (not sure about the main rx - mainly we were leaving that alone and
> did not observe this happen when we did) and when hitting the space bar to
> mark a station in the band map when doing search and pounce.   This "funny"
> resulted in TR turning off the transmit antenna which is a BAD thing!
> Worked around it by selecting the antenna manually which was no biggie in a
> single band contest.    I'd like to see if others are seeing this - I plan
> to send this in to TR and TT for their information...
> (-----snip-----)
> Tom Whiteside
> N5TW Georgetown, TX