yep,
If you want to play, you can see if it will take a firmware download....
Looks like it coughed up a silicon bundle of something.....
Best wishes,
Richard
K5SF
>From: "Reed O. Krenn" <reed_ww3a@alltel.net>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
>To: TEN TEC Reflector <tentec@contesting.com>
>Subject: [TenTec] Ailing Orion 565
>Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:45:02 -0500
>
>Greetings, O wise and gracious Orion afficiandos:
>
>My Orion 565 coughed up a hairball this afternoon. I turned the rig off
>after it had been on for several hours and shortly after caught a whiff
>of something electrical burning. I eventually traced the smell back to
>the Orion, and when I turned it back on, it came up displaying V 2.04b3
>firmware (it was recently modified at the factory), but the S meter
>backlight doesn't come on, and there is no audio from either receiver.
>It appears to be receiving signals, and the sweep works, and there is no
>RF out when I transmit.A Master Reset provided no improvement. The smell
>seems to be coming from the front panel assembly, though there are no
>obvious signs of overheating.
>
>Has anyone experienced this failure before? Is a trip to the
>'mothership' in order?
>
>Reed / WW3A
>
>--
>Reed O. Krenn
>reed_ww3a@alltel.net
>
>
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