Keith,
If you need a strong signal for testing, give me a call.
Best regards,
CSM(r) Gary Huber - AB9M
9679 Heron Bay Rd
Bloomington, IL 61705
(309-662-0604)
www.csm-gh.com
glhuber@msn.com
gary.huber@us.army.mil
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From: <ac9s@mchsi.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 7:22 PM
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: [TenTec] new firmware
> I have had the new firmware on my O2 for the last couple of days. I find the
> same reported problems plus have one observation. Same reported problems:
> a) Red on the spectrum display sometimes - looks like it is triggered by
> strong adjacent sigs, but not sure. I can reset it by turning the sweep off
> and on. b) Audio distortion with slow agc decay rates. c) With AF agc- use
> of the notch creates a audio buzzing - looks like radio has crashed at that
> point. d) I am getting a measured 18 watts of carrier out on AM with full
> power. By the way it takes a lot more audio to modulate the radio on AM than
> on SSB. e) AF gain is much lower with AF agc. As it currently stands AF
> agc has no benefit for me. I was really looking forward to having the notch
> work properly. Hopefully with the bugs fixed it will.
>
> Observation: the "per band" Mic and PWR settings would much more useful if
> they were per "band stack" On a per band basis the only use would be 30
> meters where I use full power versus the 50 watts I use to drive the amp on
> other bands. For those of you who are about to pounce on me - I normally use
> 50 watts, and if that doesn't work go to full amp power.
>
> What I could use is Mic and PWR memory on each band stack. I have band
> register A set up for CW - 50 watts, register B for PSK - 25 watts & low
> audio, register C for normal SSB - 50 watts, mic 50, and register D for 80
> meter AM - low power, and high MIC gain.
>
> It would be very useful to have my settings memorized by band register, per
> band it has little meaning. As long as settings are memorized by band
> register it would be even better to include AGC settings, Attenuator, and
> pre-amp in addition to freq, mode, and possibly MIC and PWR.
>
> Question - How do we use the verify option on the firmware update utility?
> Turn the radio on with the user2 and power button like for an update? I
> assume this verifies the radio contains the same software as the downloaded
> file. Have any of you who had problems loading the firmware used the verify
> option?
>
> Thanks --
>
> Keith
> AC9S
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