No, I didn't think to try that, Toby. I usually go for the attenuators
first since they're fast and easy. If I catch them on again this evening
before the end of the contest, I'll try what you suggest.
73, Duane
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 14:46:48 -0500 "Toby Pennington"
<toby423@earthlink.net> writes:
> Duane, did you try the new RF Gain on the Orion for that signal?
> That
> should have worked really good. Toby W4CAK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Duane A Calvin" <ac5aa@juno.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 2:10 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] New Orion Update
>
>
> > The RF signal handling on strong signals definitely has issues in
> the new
> > update. Last night, K5NA on 160m measured S9+35 on the S meter,
> and the
> > tone was completely missing on his CW signal - I had to kick in
> all 18 dB
> > of attenuator before some of it started to return, and even then
> the
> > front end was not doing well on the RX. Hopefully this is just
> an
> > accidentally twiddled setting when they were doing the updates
> because
> > other things seem to work well so far.
> >
> > 73, Duane
> >
> >
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> > Austin, Texas
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