Flexers if you should happen to have an Orion and want a panadaptor that really works with it I suggest you use your SDR. It hooks up easily to the Orion by pulling the interior plug that goes to the scan preamp and running it out to the input of your SDR. Tune your SDR to approximately 9mhz. The actual frequency is a function of the sideband/mode your using but easily set and put into memory for later use. NOTE: If you would still like to receive on the SDR you can do this nicely and tune with the Orion and xmit on the Orion. Be mindful that because of the conversion scheme in the Orion lower sideband must be set to upper on the SDR and viceversa for upper sideband. Since I have not been able to resolve the xmit issues with my SDR this has been more than a satisfactory (albeit expensive) end result for me. You have to try this to believe how nice it is. Better front end with roofing filters and the other good options the Orion provides.(not true if rxing on the SDR though as the panadaptor take off must be ahead of the roofing filters in order to see all of the band. A real limitation to the SDR front end IMD.) REMEMBER TO PUT YOU SDR IN RECEIVE MODE ONLY SO AS NOT TO ACCIDENTALLY DESTROY YOUR ORION. Any questions please e-mail me direct and I will be happy to give you more details/answer questions
Clyde W8EGB PS: I suspect this would work with other rigs as well that have low enough front end conversion freq. that the SDR can tune to!! _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
