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[TenTec] Orion V2. firmware A-OK!

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Subject: [TenTec] Orion V2. firmware A-OK!
From: Randy K4QO <k4qo@earthlink.net>
Reply-to: k4qo@earthlink.net, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:49:08 -0500
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I've been reading the reports of various issues from V2.0 and I thought I would weigh in...

V2.0 is a vast improvement over v1.x in my opinion. Its not perfect, but my AN, NB, NR and Notch work perfectly.

The crisper display is wonderful, even if not in color. I do wish they would get rid of the lower case labels (and use upper case) on the screen, though.

I DO see the Speech Processor "bloom" during the periods of no audio from my mouth. However, it appears that the SP adjustment is an "attack" speed now instead of an amount of SP it is giving. Thats probably not accurate technically but that is how it appears to me. So, setting the SP to 1 has a slower attack than SP setting 9. At 9, it "blooms" right away.

When I send a CW memory I do not see it falter when I change a control at the same time.

For me, V2 is a big improvement. I don't know what the differences are in my radio from the others, but I must confess that I did not wipe out any memories at the master reset. I did have jibberish on the screen at the mic and s-tone locations initially, but selecting them and re-adjusting them cleared that up.

I spent a few hours working the International DX contest with no problems. I have tried to duplicate alot of the problems I have read about and have not been able to. Output levels are fine and close to what I had before.

All in all, a step in the right direction. I wonder why there is so much of a difference in experiences with the other radios?
73,
Randy
K4QO

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