Hi Dick,
I think an 'important' but overlooked feature of the Orion is that you do
not need any interface at all!! I run PSK and MTTY with the Orion hooked
directly to my PC sound card. It works great and the levels are easily
controlled with the PC audio controls. The only problem is TT supplies you
with a 5-pin DIN (???) and if you want to run rtty with the Orion's FSK
feature, you have to replace their supplied connector with the proper 8-pin
DIN so you can get to pin-7, which is the FSK connection. However, they
probably supplied the buyer with the 5-pin because that's what other TT rigs
used and at that time, they did not have pin-7 desiginated with the FSK
function.
Anyway congrats on getting your Orion...just keep in mind it DOES take a
while to learn before it's 'beauty' begins to shine!
Tom - W4BQF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Hemingway" <rheming1@sbcglobal.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Aux I/O socket
> Tom,
>
> I talked with Stan at TT and the information that you gave in your
> post is correct.
>
>
> >It is possible that the sender was talking about the Jupiter DIN
connections
> >and not the Orion DIN connections, it is not completely clear in the
senders
> >description.
>
> Actually I was talking about both. I had a Jupiter with a 5 pin DIN
> cable for the SignLink interface and was wondering if I could use it
> to connect with the Orion for PSK31 use. You are correct that audio
> can be assigned from the audio menu to either right or left and that
> I could use the five pin DIN cable from the Jupiter with the Orion.
> However, the output of pins 4 and 6 are padded in the Orion and they
> might not have sufficient output for the computer sound card after
> going through the interface (unless it has a volume control built in)
> - in which case the cable would have to be routed from the Orion
> directly to the sound card.
>
> My Orion will be here Thursday and I will see how the cable works.
> Thanks to everyone.
>
> Dick, N5XRD
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