(Cw) Cw Menu - Ten-Tec Orion 565 Manual

through the ANT 1 or ANT 2 connectors.
The XVRT KEY jack for keying of the
transverter is also activated when this menu
selection is turned to 'on'.
Also see the transverter connection and
operation description in chapter 4.
The next 10 line items correspond to
automatic antenna selection per band.
ORION provides the ability for the radio to
automatically select an antenna combination
when the band change keypad is used to
change amateur bands.
The available options are Ant1, Ant2,
Ant1/RX, Ant2/RX and ---. The --- dashed
line represents "no change" and when
changing to a band marked as such, the
radio will retain the previous antenna
selection before the band change was
made.
Ant1 and Ant2 automatically selects the
antenna connected to ANT 1 or ANT 2 on
the rear panel for transceive operation.
Ant1/RX will select both the antenna
connected to ANT 1 for transmit and the
receive-only antenna connected to AUX RX
for receive. Ant2/RX will select both the
antenna connected to ANT 2 for transmit
and the receive-only antenna connected to
AUX RX for receive.

(CW) CW MENU

Figure 3-2 CW Menu
To select the CW menu, press the button
immediately adjacent to the screen next to
the CW selection (labeled AGC).
CW QSK Delay allows the operator to slow
the QSK action of the transceiver in CW
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transmit. A higher value represents more
transmit/receive delay between individual
transmitted CW characters.
Internal Keyer can be turned on and off via
the menu system if desired. Please note
that when the radio is in a CW mode that the
keyer can also be turned on and off from the
front panel by pressing SP. See the
description of (19) SP in Chapter 2.
CW Weighting refers to the 3:1 dit:dah ratio
employed by the CW keyer for transmitting
Morse code. The length of each dah sent is
three times that of a dit, relative to the
spacing between the elements. The default
value is 100%, with an adjustable range of
50% to 150%. As weighting increases in
percentage, dits and dahs become longer in
length, maintaining the 3:1 ratio. As
weighting percentage decreases, dits and
dahs become shorter, maintaining the 3:1
ratio.
Sidetone Pitch is the CW offset from carrier
that is used for listening to CW on the Orion.
Turn the MULTI knob to adjust. This value
is also adjustable from the front panel while
pressing and holding the SPOT button and
turning the MULTI knob simultaneously.
Also see the description of (30) SPOT in
Chapter 2.
CW Rise/Fall allows the operator to adjust
the rise and fall time of the transmitting CW
envelope for more or less rise time. The
adjustable values are 3 ms to 10 ms,
depending on whether the internal keyer or
external keying is used, and the speed at
which the internal keyer is set. The default
value is 5 ms. Lower values like 3 ms will
result in a "harder" keying sound with a
quicker slope from keying initiation to full
envelope and back. Higher values result in
more gentler slopes for the CW transmit
envelope on the "make" and "break" and
result in a softer transmitted CW note.
For the internal keyer, 3 to 10 ms is
available at speeds up to 30 WPM. Past 30
WPM, the available values are 3 to 5 ms.
Keying at "softer" rise and fall times above
30 WPM can result in "mushy", non-
definitive sounding CW transmit.
For external keying, the rise and fall times
available are 3 ms to 5 ms regardless of the
keyer speed.
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