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Re: [TenTec] Orion II NR with V2 (and probably OI V2.xxx)

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II NR with V2 (and probably OI V2.xxx)
From: "Douglas Shock" <douglas.shock@gmail.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:29:16 -0700
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dito

On 3/19/06, Kc9cdt@aol.com <Kc9cdt@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Just to ad a little of my experimentaion and observance...
>
> Maybe the distortion we are hearing is the noise, not the signal being
> distorted?
>
> When I listen to the OII with NR on what I hear that is most upsetting (
> and
> different from Orion 1.371) is the actual noise sounds. Kind of hard to
> explain, but the best way I can describe it is: The noise seems to have a
> static
> like sound  along with the atmospheric noises ( Yeh, I know it is static
> to begin
> with, but this is different). And it has a kind of clicking along with it.
> Also with 1.371 the weak signal came up some with NR on. There were many
> times I
> could copy weak signals with NR on, that I could not copy with it off. Now
> I
> just leave it off as it does not do all that much to help with weak
> signals,
> to my ears anyway.
>
> 1.371 DID NOT have this.
>
> Also, as others have noted here the NR works a lot better with stronger
> signals. Once you try to use it with weak signals ( That is when we need
> it,
> right!) it falls apart.
>
> Another way I would describe it is with the new NR (V2) when the filter is
> built around the signal, it does not get rid of the noise on the edges, it
> just
> changes it, distorts it or whatever it is doing.
>
> Does this make sense to anyone else?
>
> 73,
> Lee
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