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Re: [TenTec] Orion V1 - Orion V2 NR Comparison

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion V1 - Orion V2 NR Comparison
From: Neal Campbell K3NC <nealk3nc@gmail.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 18:32:18 -0400
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You can find it if you google the file name.

73 Neal

jack wrote:
> would someone please make 1.372b5 available for us who like 1.372b3. thanks
> jack ak7o
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Buck" <kh7t@arrl.net>
> To: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t@comcast.net>; <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 3:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion V1 - Orion V2 NR Comparison
>
>
>   
>> Thank you Grant for the excellent table comparing the NR performance in
>> the  V1.37x and v2 firmware.
>>
>> I was in the process of deciding which version of 1.37x to return to.  I
>> do not have the luxury of a/b comparison but have become convinced that
>> I cannot pull up weak signals out of the noise with 2.056 even close to
>> the way I could on 1.372.    So I am reluctantly going back 1.372b5
>> until 2.05x better comes along.
>>
>> I do really like the stability of 2.056.  The control code and sweep
>> work much better than before, along with simultaneous NR and AN so I
>> really hope that NR and various other artifacts in 2.056 get sorted out
>> in the near future.
>>
>> I have also confirmed that AN does not work when NR is on in 1.37x 
>> versions.
>>
>> Aloha,
>> John KH7T
>>
>> Grant wrote:
>>
>>          1.371      1.372      1.373b5       2.056      2.032
>>          -----------------------------------------------------
>> 3 Khz     +6.7dB     +6.5dB     +6.5dB        +0.4dB     +1.0dB
>> 2 Khz     +5.4dB     +5.5dB     +5.4dB        -0.7dB     no data
>> 1 Khz     +3.5dB     +3.7dB     +3.6dB        -0.8dB     -0.4dB
>> 500 Hz    +1.0dB     +0.5dB     +0.5dB        -1.2dB     -1.0dB
>> 100 Hz    -0-        -0-        -0-           -0.9dB     -2.0dB
>>
>>
>> Clearly, by this metric, there is a substantial difference between 1.3x 
>> and
>> 2.0x versions of NR (stating the obvious)
>>
>>
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