Then what we need to do is get rid of DXCC and contests. Reduce allowed power to 5 Watts. That should do the trick... Ron Castro Chief Technical Officer Results Radio, LLC N6IE www.N6IE.com (Formerly
The Orion 565 is an 'original' Orion, the 566 is the Orion II. Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com (Formerly N6AHA) _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://
It wasn't me...I'd have been in and out of there in a minute! Every competitive endeavor has 'tricks of the trade' that can give you an advantage over the other players. As long as the tricks are leg
The power level control only sets the threshold for the ALC and has no effect on the linearity of the final. Running the control at 100 but adjusting the audio input for about 25 Watts output will en
The ALC light is accurate at all power levels. The power control simply changes the ALC threshold level, and as it is decreased, the amount of drive it takes to cause ALC action is proportionately re
The majority of IMD problems in PSK-31 are a result of trying to drive a microphone-level input on a transceiver with a speaker-level output from a computer sound card. That's about 40 dB too much au
An ALC won't introduce any more sidebands to PSK-31 signal than the amount of sidebands it would add to a CW signal in the form of additional key clicks over and above those caused by the initial gen
Since the Orion's ALC is both hardware and software based, it can operate over a fairly wide range of input levels and still be relatively transparent. Theoretically, reducing your output by 3 dB and
I wouldn't be so fast to interpret Lee's 2 dB increase in IMD as being *caused* by the ALC. In fact, the IMD he saw with no ALC may have been inherent in the sound card to begin with and by slightly
Jim: The Spot level is tied to the S-Tone level. Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com (Formerly N6AHA) -- -- _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.co
And please don't forget the key-click mod! It probably doesn't cost much, but the older V's were known for the problem. Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com (Formerly N6AHA) -- _____________________________________
The whole v.2 AM receive detection algorithm needs to be looked at. On the O2, it sounds very distorted to me. Nowhere near as good as my TS-870 or KWM-380. Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com (Formerly N6AHA) ___
I have a Bird 43 with a 100 Watt slug in line and it shows exactly 100 Watts out on my O2 as adjusted from the factory. That being said, measuring power with a high degree of accuracy (better than +-
Paul: Congratulations on a milestone! I'm still one of the new guys--only 44 years licensed, from the age when all of our licenses were stamped with the name 'Ben F. Waple'. Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com (Fo
Why not? The purpose of any auction is to ascertain the fair market value of an item. If you restrict the market, you defeat the purpose of the auction. As a Ten Tec equipment owner, I want to know a
I noticed that too. The "opening" seems to be a different width and at different places at different times, usually centered to the left of the "0". I don't know why. Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com (Formerly
That is the line I assumed Bernie was referring to also, and it still remains a mystery! I am sitting here trying to change it, and sometimes and can and then, I can't make it change again. It looks
One of the items on my "wish list" for the Orion II is to fix the AM receive audio, which sounds to me like a problem in the DSP code that causes distortion and 'muddy' sound. It's most noticeable du
The EQ settings were flat on both radios. Actually, there is no receive EQ setting in the TS-870, and the receive EQ on the O2 V.2.037j does not work on AM. Each receiver was fed to a Behringer UB120
The interesting thing about all of this is that on the Orion II AM stations sound substantially better in SSB (same 3 kHz audio BW) than they do in AM! I still think there is a DSP problem in the AM