Tono have you done a Master Reset? and a Ram-Clear? do the Ram-Clear
first.
(The link on RFSquared no longer works for the Ram-Clear)
A) Ram Clear
1) hold down VFOB LCK button at power-up
2) continue holding until Battery Failure appears on screen
3) Answer YES to Clear user memories
4) answer YES to Reset Optional Filters
5) When Radio screen appears turn radio OFF and then ON
B) Master Reset turn the radio OFF and reset as described in the manual.
73,
Rick
VE7TK
Website: http://www3.telus.net/ve7tk
---------------------
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: [TenTec] serious filter problem with Orion II
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:26:30 +0200
List-post: <mailto:tentec@contesting.com>
Hi,
that my 1st post here as a fresh OII owner. I am in the middle of the first
serious contest cqww160.
Already in the beginning of the contest OII developed a following problem:
Whenever I play around with BW control and go narrower than ca 200hz filters
seem to completely mess up and I start to here the band extremely wide,
getting
tens of signals and strange noises like hash and cracks on top of that.
Basically as if I was hearing the whole band. I have to do restart to get
rid
of this. This has happened a few times already not even changing the BW but
working at ca 300hz. IT comes like a wave taking about 5 sec maybe for the
filters to completely lose themselves. I have had to do ca 10 restarts and I
try to avoid going narrower or BW at all.
Has anyone seen anything like that? Running 2.037j here and NR or AGC
settings,
etc do not seem to matter.
73
Tonno
ES5TV
p.s. having really hard time getting used to OII as it does not seem yet in
any
way superior to my old trustworthy 95 vintage MP with all the mods and
filters.
MP with INRAD roofing filter does not seem to be worse in any way but is
more
quiet and signals are easier to copy in pileup. OII NR causes distortion in
signals and does not seem to improve S/N ratio, CW sidetone is ringing and
the
volume seems to be not adjustable (?), S-meter shows 59+60 for every
decently
strong signal:) I have gone through the 1 year of list archives about OII
and
tried to take all advice into account. Hopefully will be able to get used to
it
finally.
_______________________________________________
TenTec mailing list
TenTec@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
|