That's good to note that 2.062a works so well under contest conditions.
I'll pass that on to the rig's owner, N6CT.
BTW, we ran 3A at W6KB with a 4-element Steppir at 55', a 2-element Steppir
at 55', and 2-element "shorty forty" at 60', inverted V's on each 75 and 80
meters, and a Butternut vertical on 80/40 with radials right in the San
Francisco Bay water, all looking over the water to the east. Played real
nice!
Ron N6IE
www.N6IE.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Moreschi" <n4py@arrl.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion at Field Day
Both my Omni VII and Orion were used at field day. Each radio made about
1000 QSO's. They both performed flawlessly and handled the excessive QRM
beautifully. 80 percent of our QSO's were made on CW. We had 2 dipoles
each for 80, 40 and 20 meters. We used the 40 meter dipoles also on 15
meters. We were at a site with a 120 foot fire tower. So we used the
fire
tower to support most of the dipoles. We had 2 dipoles for each band at
right angles to each other. We did this to avoid the null off the end of
the dipoles. I would call CQ on an east-west dipole and stay with that
antenna until I did not get an answer to a CQ then switch to the other.
This technique caused us to be on the best antenna favoring the
propagation
direction at all times.
My Orion had firmware 2.062a in at and performed perfectly.
Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC 28635
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