Hello Oms --
I share Bill W4ZV's opinion that your troubles with the Orion were probably
due to sub-optimal receiver settings.
At the multi-op station where I was working this past weekend, I relieved an
operator and found his Orion sounded very noisy and
trashy. It was quickly apparent that:
-- the hardware noise blanker had been left on unnecessarily
-- the AGC threshold setting was far too low for the conditions on the band
-- the filters, bandwidth setting, and passband tuning was not being
exploited for best results.
Some quick adjustments later, and signal readability was greatly improved.
One might say: "The use of this radio is not intuitive, so an operator
unacquainted with it can not use it effectively." But,
more precisely, the Orion gives the operator a number of additional controls
which the operator needs to understand. But, once one
has a good mental picture of the receiver and what each control does, it's easy.
-- Eric K3NA
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