[Dx4win] Frequency problems with Ten-Tec Orion (I/II)

[Kjell W. Strom]

Jim,

Sorry, cannot help with the Ten-Tec question, but why capital K
for the kilo prefix? The world-wide SI standard is "kHz", not
"KHz". The same goes for the azimuth/distance field. It must be
"km", not "Km".

Ref. http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/sec04.html

73,
Kjell, PB3SM - SM6CPI
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim
Reisert AD1C
> Sent: 18 September 2009 01:38
> To: DX4WIN Reflector
> Subject: [Dx4win] Frequency problems with Ten-Tec Orion (I/II)
> 
> I was working on converting my father's log to DX4WIN8 
> format. I found some strange frequencies in his log in the 
> "Notes for this QSO" field:
> 
>   80m:    0/24KHz
>   15m:    0/22KHz
>   15m:    0/34KHz
> 
> The last one of the above "flavor" seems to have been made on 
> 2007/03/05:
> 
>   40m:    0/6KHz
> 
> Then they start with a different syndrome on 2007/09/22, the 
> first one is:
> 
>   40m:    0/7,009KHz
>   60m:    0/404KHz (probably should be 5404KHz)
>   17m:    0/18,103KHz
> 
> The 1st and 3rd definitely look like they should have been 
> split frequency QSOs, but "VFO-A" (or whatever it's called in
Ten-Tec
> parlance) read back as 0.
> 
> Has anyone running a Ten-Tec Orion seen this problem?  It 
> looks to be sporadic, so it's probably hard to debug.  And he 
> upgraded to an Orion II, which may have happened some time in 
> 2007, based on the way the error syndrome changed.
> 
> - Jim
> 
> --
> Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, 
> http://www.ad1c.us 
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