As Jerry pointed out correctly, a while back, a TCXO is a Temperature COMPENSATED Crystal Oscillator, not an oven. Have no idea whether the TCXO remains powered when the radio is off, but it's going
The spec is +/- 1 ppm at "room temperature" and +/- 3ppm "over temperature", which I presume means over the defined operating range of 0-50 degC. As far as "excursion" is concerned, the range would b
Sounds like a rigourous comparison .. Digging signals out of mud (wchich I take to mean attempting to get intelligence from a signal that is at .. and maybe a good bit of the time below .. the ambien
It isn't mojo, it's physics. Side by side works fine, if there's a valid receiver characteristic that makes a difference. I'ts a brand-independent issue. Unless the issue is internal receiver noise a
Yes. But only test that has any real validity is the A/B test he's just completed. Since he didn't do an A/B test of radio X with every radio on the list, there's no basis for a ranking. Seems to be
The relationship only exists because of the physical nature of how those two sensors on the sides of our head work. The distinction between audio and not-audio is irrelevant in this situation. As som
I have plugged a set of mono phones into that jack on a couple of occasions accidentally. The world did not come to an end. The radio did not blow up or smoke. In response to a previous post on this
You may simply want to read the manual section on the TUNE button. Press TUNE and you will get carrier, reduced to about 20% of full output. If you then (or first) press PWR, TUNE will give you the c
I had the discoussion with Ten-Tec right after my Orion arrived a the end of March. The current manual version is incorrect and incomplete on the operation of TUNE, and on the interaction between TUN
The Orion hears between dots and dashes on the MAIN receiver at all speeds ( a little iffi above the mid-50's) ... at some point, it gets to be a bit academic anyway -- at least for me :-) The sub re
Well, (no flame intended), I didn't find the discussion particularly thoughtful at all. In fact the gentlemen just plain got it wrong. The Orion display is clear, crisp, and informative. ALL of the i
Can't we just get off this color thing? It's a pointless discussion. If someone wants to buy radio with color then let them eat cake. It won't hear better -- but if it floats your boat then by all me
TT mojo? This is the T-E-N-T-E-C list -- contrary to popular belief that it has become the "see, we told you Icom would be the very bestest, and we'll all be happier if we send our dollars offshore"
Monitor audio is a bit low. Perhaps this will be in a firmware change somewhere along the line. In the meantime, just turn up the audio gain a bit. Grant/NQ5T
Doesn't say much for hams, does it. Maybe the real winner will be the combo transceiver/datebook/GameBoy ... and something that you can play those .. uh, well, .. you know ... MPG and AVI files you c
And the 781 was an absolutely awful AM radio. Terrible on receive, truly lousy on transmit. Hopefully, the 7800 (or whatever they call the US version) will be better. The Orion is GREAT!! on AM, for
That is a pretty big oops .. Easy to imagine how the person at the assembly station could grab the wrong connector, but not so easy to imagine how the error wouldn't get caught at the next step -- wh
It's pretty simple really. This style of frequency assignment is typical of MIL channel assignments, MARS specifically. For MARS at least, the normal operating standard is to set the dial frequency 1