Yes, Lee, you can indeed get the Orion to suit your tastes. When I don't have a few kids over to enjoy contesting my preference is 20M DXing and ragchewing. It took me a while to get it like I like i
The Centurion is an excellent amplifier for either CW, SSB, or what have you. And it's probably the best value for a near legal limit amp on the market. While I have the Titan III and the Titan 425 o
I had a couple and have made a couple more and they are not that much trouble to build. And no, I don't solder DB25's either. Not anymore, anyway. The current demand is small, so I use a ready made 2
Well, if you must have a scientifically approved "color display" have it in red and white, red background and white lettering. While the difference between white on red and black on white is small, i
Chuckle. I do run Carl's Orion program with mine. And the colors are real pretty. They remind me of a box of assorted lollipops, actually. But so far at least Logic does not directly interface with t
Well, I don't know about Orion owners wanting a clique somewhere else. I suspect most Orion owners are too busy operating to post anything about the rig. Besides, superlatives get mighty boring after
Why did I buy an Orion? For two reasons. The first was because I hoped it would live up to both it's billing and to the reputation its predecessors set. Because after trying all the highly touted rig
Well - we Orion owners are in much the same situation as Jim Bridger trying to describe Yellowstone. He finally got tired of being ridiculed so he started telling folks the Yellowstone country was wo
Well, if I may - Krauss passes over it with a casual comment to the effect that "under the best conditions half the signal is lost to the medium and half is delivere to the transmission line." Excuse
My Centurion came without a power plug. I bought a plug at Home Depot to match the shack wiring and it's been working for - 10 years? - something like that. Now, my Titan III came with a plug, and th
Item 1, My secretary turned her radio up as some Congressman was explaining that on one of the talk shows yesterday. Probably the Rush Limbaugh program. It seems the moratorium on taxing internet tra
Well, I have had pretty good luck with Inrad products, but.... First, 2 dB or even 3 dB passband ripple is a lot on paper, and not so much when you listen to the end result. A volume level change of