Hello TT-Fans,
I decided to go back to firmware 1.371 today.
I am doing 99% CW this this radio.
Why did I reload the 1.371 firmware:
1. the new keyer function does not work for me, still stuck in cutis B
when
power on the Orion and I cannot see any difference between the A and
B mode
the only solution is the do a master reset every time you power on
the Orion
The OMNI 6* have a better keyer timing for my operating style
2. the headphone click when you are using a qsk delay less 8%
yes the qsk in faster in 1.372, but it you have the clicks in the
headphone
and you have to reduce the qsk-speed to 8% to reduce the click, you
are in the same
speed range as with the 1.371 firmware
3. lost the 2. RX nearly every day after power on the Orion, mostly when
the 2. RX
is listen on 80 meter CW, will not power on the Orion twice a day in
serie
4. 17 Meter TX problem
often had a extremly current consumption on 17 meter when powering
the Orion on, so
my power supply does not deliever 40 amp and more on 12 volt.
Sometimes this
problem was gone when I switch to 15 meter did a few dit dit dit and
switch back to
17 meter, but not this sunday!
5. got several times a funny sounding main-receiver when using the AN on
SSB mode and
switch back CW and turn off the AN
6. the NR does not work as nicely as with 1.371
Yes I did several master reset and also one time a RAM CLEAR and master
reset again.
Yes I know the things that solved with 1.372:
1. the roofing filter kick in is now analog with the BW
2. the RFGAIN is working better now, but the RX was fine also before
3. the Voice-keyer should work now better, but never used the Orion in
SSB in TX mode
4. the keying loop with ACOM amps should work now, never used a ACOM,
still
using the old Centurion with the amp-keyling line, did not perform
the Centurion mode
for the older Centurion amps
So why I should use the 1.372 firmware as an 99% CW OP?
But also with 1.371 I having one thing that I cant solve up to now:
On 20 meter and up I have an offset of -160 HZ in CW to the frequency read
out.
On the low bands 160/80/40/30 I do not have these offset.
The configuration here is:
ORION AT plus samplex SEC 1223 power supply:
1KHZ TT roofing filter in the 1.8 KHZ slot
600 HZ Inrad roofing filter in the 1 KHZ slot
500 HZ TT roofing filter in the 500 HZ slot
250 HZ TT roofing filter in the 250 HZ slot
all filters enabled(1.8, 0.5, 0.25)
Offset 500 HZ 190 HZ
Offset 250 HZ 110 HZ
Mode LCW on all bands.
Yes I konw the problem could be the offset of the 500 and 250 HZ filters,
but why
only on the bands 20 meter and up?
Switch to UCW on 20 meter and up do not solve the problem above.
First time 1 can remember this offsett problem appear since I put the
original 1 KHZ filter in in
the 1.8KHZ slot, but not 100% sure about this.
73 de Harry, DK2GZ
a TT-Fan since several years
TT gear visit my shak in the past 22 years:
OMNI D, Argonaut, Argonaut II. Paragon, OMNI 6+, TT-Kit 1320
Never had such kind of problems with the K2/100 and TS570D(G) or
the TT-gear above
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