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

[Mel]

You are right... but why? MHz/GHz/THz vs kHz has never made sense to me....

Kjell W. Strom wrote:
> 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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