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Subject: [TenTec] Orion questions
From: wb4qda@yahoo.com (John Sheeley)
Date: Sun May 18 15:36:39 2003
Creg 
 You probably already know this. Be sure to only use
stereo headphones I have no audio problems with just a
cheap set of wireless stereo headphones.

de John WB4QDA

--- Greg Fischer <ab7r@direcway.com> wrote:
> OK all.... Now that I have been playing with this
> new rig for about 2 days straight, I have a couple 
> questions to see if others perform the same or maybe
> I have something set wrong, which certainly can be
> the case.
> 
> 1.  I have the 3 optional filters installed.  when
> activated and I adjust BW from 380 down to 370 I see
> about an 2 S-unit attenuation.  I tried adjusting
> the center freq  by finding the roll off about
> equi-distant from the center with the BW control. 
> This still does not change the 2 s-unit drop.  Is
> this just the way the filter is acting as a roofing
> filter instead of a regular IF filter?  Just did not
> think it should do that.  The filter CF I adjusted
> was for the 500 hz one.
> 
> 2.  The NR in CW seems to work in reverse.  When I
> activate it, it increases the noise, almost acting
> like a pre-amp. It increases the cw signal and the
> background noise as well.  This seems to vary with
> the strength of the signal.  The NR works great on 
> SSB with the AGC slower.  But a fast AGC in CW seems
> like it does not allow the NR DSP enough time to
> process the signal.
> 
> 3.  When the headphones are plugged in, there is a
> CONSTANT high piched whine, sounds to be about
> 900-1000 hz (guess).  Also, when sending CW, the
> audio in the phones sounds like mush, almost like a
> crackling sound when transmitting.
> 
> 4.  Rare, but occaisional loss of RX for no apparent
> reason.  Sometimes it looks like it locks up in low
> level Transmit since the SWR indicator comes on
> replacing the sub rx bargraph, but no output.
> 
> 
> 
> I am sure these are either software refinements or
> maybe I have something set wrong and should/could
> easily be corrected in time  (short time I hope). 
> Other than these, the rig seems great so far.  I
> love the signal handling whichi is why I bought it
> in the first place.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.  BTW... version
> 1.341
> 
> Greg
> AB7R
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