[Trlog] Radio interface

[R. Torsten Clay]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Dale L Martin wrote:

> 
> >
> >
> > I am trying to catch up on the e-mail relating to IC735s,
> > Omni Vi's and such.
> >
> > First off, did version 6.73 work okay for Omni VI folks?
> > Ron added a specific radio type for the Omni VI.  As I
> > understand it, TenTec made a new flavor of their firmware
> > that had some changes in it - and this screwed up the
> > previous versions with the newer firmware.  TR has to
> > go off and guess which version is installed and deal with
> > it.  BTW - this is really poor engineering in my book, and
> > also made worse with the new radio (Orion) wasn't made to
> > be backward compatible.  Oh well.  Maybe when we get the
> > Omni-VI sorted out, we can think about adding the Orion.
> >
> 

6.74 works much better with my Omni VI. But alt-V, alt-B, and typing the 
freq only succeeds about 60% of the time. 

During the sprint, I used the Omni on 40m only. Occaisionally during the
sprint the display on the radio would jump down 100 KHz or jump from 7.023
to 97.023! The jump down by 100 kcs has been happening for a long time
with TR and my Omni (>5 years?). It only happens on 40m.

Someone else reported this same problem on 3830 (Dale?)


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