OK, Just my experience...
No, you really cant use the radio out of the box.
Well, maybe if the bands were real quiet (unlike present days with the Sun
going nuts on us and the cycle going downhill).
The noise level with the defaults is real high. When I first fired it up I
thought there was something wrong with the radio. Turned my Icom 746 PRO on to
see what was going on and ... things were ok.
So, I went to this reflector for help... several folks told me to turn the
AGC threshold Up-Up-Up til the noise was down. That worked. I have found that
you have to use the threshold adjustment quite a lot. When I get ORION back
from
TT on Wed. I will be doing more testing, operating etc. I participate in 3
different 20 MTR DX nets almost everyday so I have my 746 PRO and the ORION
side
by side to compare. Actually what I will be continuing to do is to use ORION
with all of the AGC, RF gain and NR settings to see just how good it can be!
Thanks,
Lee
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