Hi: The speaker, singular, takes a standard 1/4" telephone plug. One key jack is a standard telephone jack just to the right of the headphone jack on the front panel, the other is a 1/8" stereo jack
Tom, W7QF, has posted an excellent overview of the Orion. From the operating side, mine works both with my 87A and the Titan. Very convenient, since I can essentially search and pounce for DX and che
Hi Grant: the 307B is an excellent speaker, and it sounds great on the Orion. In fact, the only speaker I have tried that outperforms the 307B is my Hallicrafters R-42. And that big boy is hard to be
Speakers are pretty much a matter of personal taste. There have been several postings touting the Radio Shack/RCA $29.95 cube. I have a couple, they are all right, but as a sound reproducer the 307 i
As my dad used to say, "There's one guy in every bunch who wants an egg in his beer." Personally, I look forward to the operating system updates, glitch fixes, and so on. At the moment, I'm too busy
I second Tommy, WD4K's, comments on the Orion. The primary reciever is by far the best receiver ever to hit my shack. And excepting Japan Radio, I have owned most of the TOL radios and used the rest.
Well, since I'm still in the "dark ages" with a DOS computer and no 'net connection in the shack I have not upgraded my Orion. Yet. But I am in no hurry since I'm enjoying the out of the box performa
Hmm - the panoramic audio worked as it should when I had time to try it - except the tones were reversed. I thought at the time that it was probably one of those "been working 36 hours straight, whic
HI: As a very pleased Orion owner, no the optional filters are NOT necessary for CW. In fact, mine came with the options turned off, and it was several days before I got far enough down in the manual
I have "set my Orion down by another rig," or actually had rigs brought to my shack for a comparison. The results were quite interesting, to say the least - and the results were very definite when co
Personally, I'm more'n a little amused at the thought of my tuning for CQ's on a second band while working a station on the first band. They guys who do that are a whole lot better coordinated than I
Since the broadcast publication of very private information has already occured, I do have people who insist on ordering items by E-mail and including credit card numbers. This is roughly as dangerou
Hi: the DSP on the VI + or the Option 3 is outstanding. It's been so long since I had my VI's Optioned I don't remember how good it was before the conversion, but I have found very few rigs whose DSP
Well, the Omni VI+ DSP is excellent on CW, pretty decent on SSB. Not that it's anything you would want to use during an evening ragchew - because that would get annoying pretty quickly. Just like eve
RE: the Code Warrior is a VERY NICE little key. I have never tried the Kent, but I have a dozen or so assorted keys around the shack and the Warrior more than holds its own. 73 Pete Allen AC5E
Well, my Titan has been my daily driver for a dozen years and I have always been impressed with how smooth and easy the tune and load controls move. The poly sheets are thinner than the interplate sp
Hmm: No, the only power supply problems I have had with my 425 was a power surge induced rectifier failure. Being a great believer in "hell for stout" I replaced the failed rectifiers with four 14 KV
Tom, I found the cap at a hamfest. Six bucks - and I will trade a jaybird for a turkey if the turkey is fat. Although Surplus Sales of Nebraska has some pretty good prices on caps also. Just not that