Re: [TenTec] Noisy Orion Help please!

["Toby Pennington" <toby423@earthlink.net>]

Jim,  The Orion has a very quiet receiver.  Check and see if you have both 
receiver AF gains turned up at the same time.  A master reset as someone 
else mentioned is not a bad idea to try. Which version of the radio are you 
running?  Are you hearing actual signals at all on any band?  Be sure you 
have chosen the right antenna setting and check your VFO A and VFO B 
settings to be sure you have the VFOs assigned properly. The s meter will 
read full signal strength now when the rf gain is turned down compliments of 
1.372. Toby  W4CAK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Miller WB5OXQ" <wb5oxq@grandecom.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 12:28 AM
Subject: [TenTec] Noisy Orion Help please!


Can someone help me please?

I got a new Orion a week ago and I am still learning to use it.  I 
previously owned an Omni 6+ which had a very satisfactory receiver and with 
the NR on and rf gain at about 60-70% I could enjoy nearly noise free 
reception.
The Orion on the other hand has a lot of background noise on most any band 
and I cannot seem to get rid of the noise.  I have tired different rf gain 
settings, tried several of the programmable agc settings, several different 
filter settings but nothing helps.  The noise sounds like steam escaping 
under pressure and the nr and nb only changes the tone of the noise.  Even 
with the rf gain at 1 and the preamp off there is still a lot of noise.  The 
s meter is not effected by the rf gain settings either.  on 75m the S meter 
reads about 9 s units or more when no one is talking.  I can copy ssb 
signals on 75 meters better on my 1960's Hammarlund HQ 180.
WB5OXQ, Jim in Waco


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