The Omni VII receiver is excellent at pulling out weak signals amoung very strong ones. I really doubt you will ever find a situation where the K3 will be better at this. Look at the specs for it at
In fact it is driviing the load with 36 watts in your example. When the wattmeter shows forward power of 100 watts and reflected power of 40 watts into a high swr, because the load is not 50 ohms, th
I said traditional wattmeter. I am referring to inexpensive wattmeters that only measure voltage. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Dr Hays, NC 28635 www.n4py.com ___________________________________
This could be RF feedback getting into the Orion. The fact that it is band sensitive points to this. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Dr Hays, NC 28635 www.n4py.com ________________________________
Have you done a complete reset to the Orion? 1) Power off Orion. 2) Power On holding the VFO B LCK button. 3) Continue holding LCK button until the radio says "Battery Failure". 4) Power off Orion. 5
Nobody that is at all serious about contesting uses a straight key. I know many contesters, many who are highly skilled at CW. They all use keyers with memories to send their CQ's and copy in their h
If you use CW skimmer or the packet cluster in a contest, that puts you in a different category called "assisted". Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Dr Hays, NC 28635 www.n4py.com __________________
Yes, it is a different category and you only compete against other people that are doing the same thing. My son, N4YDU, is a big contester and keeps me informed on things like this. Carl Moreschi N4P
The new theories on learning morse point out a very important point about learning morse. It is best to learn sounds immediately and never learn the sight of dots and dashes. It goes like this. Assum
In 1977 I took my 20 wpm sending test with my heath kit HD-1410 keyer to pass my extra exam. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Drive Hays, NC 28635 www.n4py.com _____________________________________
Did you tin the wires with solder or just work with them bare? You probably didn't get a "9" for the tone report. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Drive Hays, NC 28635 www.n4py.com ________________
Believe oit or not I found my instructions for installing the PT-11 tuner in the pegasus. The instrucitons talk about the RT-11 circuit board. I don't remember if there really was an RT-11. It may ju
Both the Pegasus internal tuners were made by LDG. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Drive Hays, NC 28635 www.n4py.com _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@cont
My N4PY software for the Orion can handle the comport for the Orion and 3 more virtual comports allowing simultaneous operation of the N4PY program controlling the Orion, N1MM as the logger, CWSkimme
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1) All programs now have support for the Perseus receiver as a Panadapter. 2) All programs now have a total of three external comports to allow panadapters, CWSkimmer, and external logging programs t
I had a typo on enhancement number 2. It should read 2) All programs now have a total of three external comports to allow panadapters, CWSkimmer, and external logging programs to run at the same with
It sounds like John Henry has described exactly what is wrong with the bandwidth setting and what needs to be fixed to make it work correctly. To me it seems that a band register store command needs
Did you also do a battery reset? Below is the best procedure for a full absolute reset. 1) Power off Orion. 2) Power On holding the VFO B LCK button. 3) Continue holding LCK button until the radio sa
Can this keyer be set in both mode A and mode B? If so, make sure you are in Mode B. Mode A does not have a dot memory. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Drive Hays, NC 28635 www.n4py.com __________