Very nice news article. The equipment looked very sophisticated , I am sure
it will be an eye opener to non hams. carry on ! John kb2huk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
To: "Ten Tec List" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 2:55 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Orion at Field Day
I upgraded an Orion to v. 1.373b5 to run in our Field Day event this year
with the Redwood Empire DX Assn. and the Marin Amateur Radio Society. You
can see an interesting newspaper article published in yesterday's Marin
Independent Journal with a picture of me operating the Orion at
www.N6IE.com!
The rig with the updated firmware was much improved over the previous
original version although I don't recall which one was in it before. Last
year, there were reports of crashing at least once per hour or more. This
time, running all SSB and over 1,000 QSO's, we had only two lock-ups
during the course of the event. I suspect that the newest v. 2.x is
better and advised the rig's owner to do the hardware mod and upgrade.
Ron N6IE
www.N6IE.com
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