Now there's a thought! Imagine being the pilot of one of those ugly F117's
and the computers lock up. Answer from the Help Desk, "Oh just reboot!"
Those things are so dumb without the computers, they don't know how to keep
the pointy end into the wind. B-)
John de VK2XGJ
Money talks, Chocolate sings!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A: Not Ready for Prime Time!
> I'm glad we're only test piloting software and not airplanes, or I'd be a
> goner for sure!
>
> Ron Castro
> Chief Technical Officer
> Results Radio, LLC
> N6IE
> www.N6IE.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Rsoifer@aol.com>
> To: <ronc@sonic.net>; <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A: Not Ready for Prime Time!
>
>
>> Ron and others,
>>
>> Many thanks for your fine work. After playing with 2.042A overnight,
>> I've
>> re-installed 2.041XT and will await T-T's next try.
>>
>> 73 Ray W2RS
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 4/14/2010 2:45:00 A.M. GMT Standard Time,
>> ronc@sonic.net
>> writes:
>>
>> I keep hoping that it's something simple like a hiccup while I was
>> flashing
>> the new firmware, so I'm interested if anyone else finds the same things
>> I'm
>> finding in the behavior.
>>
>> Ron N6IE
>> www.N6IE.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gene Henderson" <wb9hla@comcast.net>
>> To: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
>> <tentec@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A: Not Ready for Prime Time!
>>
>>
>>> Ron,
>>> Looks like someone forgot to install this on a radio and see if it
>> worked.
>>> I agree with you
>>> not even close to Prime Time
>>> Gene WB9HLA
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
>>> To: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
>>> <tentec@contesting.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 21:50
>>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A: Not Ready for Prime Time!
>>>
>>>
>>>> Addendum to my post: on problem #1, I'm referring to the RX audio.
>>>> TX
>>>> audio (other than more drive needed and processor problem) still
>>>> sounds
>>>> broadcast quality.
>>>>
>>>> Ron N6IE
>>>> www.N6IE.com
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
>>>> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 6:41 PM
>>>> Subject: [TenTec] Orion II v 2.042A: Not Ready for Prime Time!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Here are a list of problems I found right off with the v. 2.042A,
>>>>> even
>>>>> after doing a battery reset and two master resets and memory clear:
>>>>> 1.. Very noticeable distortion on all audio. Sounds like overdrive
>> in
>>>>> IF
>>>>> or DSP section.
>>>>> 2.. AGC hang in AF AGC. S-meter goes up and never comes down! At
>> same
>>>>> time, RF gain goes down and does not come back up. If you manually
>> turn
>>>>> the RF Gain all the way to 0, then back up to 100, the radio is
>>>>> essentially muted. This will not happen if the "AGC Hang" setting is
>> 0,
>>>>> but then distortion is really bad.
>>>>> 3.. NR does not work in AF AGC mode. Does seem to work well in RF
>>>>> AGC
>>>>> mode.
>>>>> 4.. Much more audio drive needed on AUX input for SSB. It looks
>>>>> like
>>>>> about 10 dB more.
>>>>> 5.. AM carrier= 1.25 Watts max! That's at 100% PWR setting.
>>>>> 6.. FM carrier= 6.4 Watts max.
>>>>> 7.. SSB Speech Processor gives only around 50 Watts max peak output.
>>>>> You
>>>>> can get it up to 100 Watts when you crank it to "way beyond
>>>>> reasonable
>>>>> distortion".
>>>>> 8.. Could not find any sort of S-Meter calibration
>>>>> Here are the good points so far:
>>>>> 1.. Side tone is louder and spot level is too.
>>>>> 2.. Waterfall display is much improved.
>>>>> 3.. Difference in frequency between Main and Sub improved, but still
>>>>> not
>>>>> "phase locked". I detect about 0.1 Hz differential which should make
>> it
>>>>> fine for true diversity antenna work.
>>>>> 4.. In RF AGC mode, the NR really does seem improved, although it's
>>>>> hard
>>>>> to tell with the audio distortion mentioned above.
>>>>> So that's the good, the bad and the ugly of it! I'm QSYing back to
>>>>> v.
>>>>> 2.039d, the last one that worked right...
>>>>>
>>>>> Ron N6IE
>>>>> www.N6IE.com
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