"It's sort of useless, like all Ten Tec notch filters..."
I _LOVE_ my Orion II notch filter!
The automatic feature is good, but the manual one is about the best I've ever
used.
73,
Bernie
> On Jul 19, 2017, at 16:33, Gary F <dukeshifi@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> The Eagle does have a notch function. I don't recall how to activate it but
> it is in the manual.
>
> It's sort of useless, like all Ten Tec notch filters, since it is outside the
> AGC loop, so, while it does not have the carrier, it also attenuated your
> desired signal by about as much as it reduces the carrier.
>
> The reduction to 20 watts in Tune is self-defense. Orion's do it too. This is
> to prevent the presence of full 100 watts into a mismatch. It is good policy.
>
> Orion's had an option in which you could press the Power button, I believe,
> to get 100 watts in Tune after match had been reached.
>
> Red arid green the A//B VFO, there really is no A or B VFO in the traditional
> sense and Eagle only has one tuning knob. Therefore, the A/B indicator serves
> no function in transceive operation. In split operation, that indicator
> should flip when going fro RX to TX to tell you which displayed frequency is
> the TX frequency.
>
> Gary
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Jul 19, 2017, at 3:05 PM, Michael Tortorella <w2iy@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all, I am hearing an awful lot of steady carrier signals up here in the
>> frozen north of Downeast Maine. Most are not very strong and they go away
>> when I disconnect the antenna so they are external to the radio. Today I am
>> chasing TR8CA on 20 CW, he is way down in the noise, and 100 Hz away from
>> one of these carriers. Sure would be nice to have something like a notch
>> filter to help in situations like these but I could not see anywhere in the
>> manual or front panel where I could notch the offending carrier. Is there
>> any list wisdom on this?
>>
>>
>>
>> On another note, I did contact service at TT last week with my question
>> about power out in autotune; after only a few days delay I got an answer
>> that the power out in autotune is 20 watts even though the power output
>> shown on the display is 100. This seems not quite right from a human
>> factors point of view, maybe there can be a firmware fix? Also, when
>> exchanging VFOs, the A,B labels do not change even when the B vfo is in
>> large type at the top of the display. I find this confusing. OK, I guess
>> this turned into a longer letter about a couple of other things besides
>> notch filtering, so please excuse my prolixity and thank for the BW. Any
>> suggestions appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks and 73, Mike W2IY
>>
>>
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