In good old days a product had to perform according to its published and advertised description. Looks like we cannot expect anything like that anymore. 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN
Software has been "an intergal part of its operation ability" in many prior radios. But most users haven't been aware, presumably because it worked correctly. 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN
AMP outputs have no relays, just transistors. But there is a reed relay somewhere in the TX output path and it can be heard easily. 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN
... Well, the best close-in dynamic range is just a single line, and in many circumstances not the most important one. It takes a whole story for the "best" transceiver". 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN
Orion's close-in IM performance is substantially degraded with 500 & 250 Hz filters. Some claim that's due to additional gain, but I doubt it. 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN
It should also switch Orion to transmit. That would give the exact control of T/R timing to those who need it, provided that the rest of Orion is capable of supporting such a thing. No, with both VOX
Reception agains QRN is fundamentally different from reception against steady backround noise. Setting decay rate to maximum effectively clips the input signal, be it CW, noise or QRN. Slightly less
Not on most contemporary receivers, including Orion and MkV. Pulsewidth? Unfortunately, most AGC systems are peak-responding. In what sense? 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN
NB doesn't care for the repetitive nature of pulses. It is tailored to a certain range of pulse widths, and QRN doesn't seem to fit in. 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN
I certainly trust your results and would like to understand what is actually going on, i.e., I'd like to go a step beyond simply following recipes. Depending on QRN-to-signal ratio, it takes some tim
As short as ignition pulses? Is any of them actually effective against QRN? OK, so the 10 kHz spacing is also IC7800 and FT9000 tailored :-) 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN
An excellent idea. Even in a very limited form of just assigning the AGC threshold to, say, SEND 1, it will still be very useful. 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN
Hi Gary, Orion features a confusing concept of what may be called "context preserving", i.e. saving and restoring parameters when switching bands, or with in-band "stacking registers". This also appl
Orion's VFO encoders have a substandard resolution of only ~256 steps in FAST mode. Coupled with 10 Hz steps this provides 2.56 kHz per revolution. That's good for CW, but not good for SSB, giving on