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Re: [TenTec] Reset on Omni V.9 with display troubles

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Reset on Omni V.9 with display troubles
From: Carl Moreschi <n4py2@earthlink.net>
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:16:54 -0400
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The battery may be bad.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Dr.
Hays, NC 28635
www.n4py.com

On 9/22/2011 8:48 PM, Steve Berg wrote:
>
> Ever since I bought my Omni V.9, it had an intermittent frequency
> display.  It would quit working, and then I would take the covers off
> and wiggle the connections, clean them and generally, I could get it
> working right again for a while.  Earlier this year, it finally went
> from intermittent to not working at all, and so I pulled the board, and
> thinking that I might have a crystallized solder joint somewhere in it,
> carefully resoldered the entire display driver board.  It still didn't
> work.  So, I sent the board and eventually the entire radio back to the
> factory for repair.  It came back with another display driver board, but
> it seems that the two digits from the far right of the display come up
> on the left side of the display when the radio is powered up.  If I turn
> the radio off, and then turn it on while pushing in the red reset button
> on the right side of the radio, it generally goes to 14 MHz, and
> everything is fine until I shut it down and start it up again.
>
> Does anyone here have any idea of what might be causing this?  If so, is
> there any reasonably easy fix for this problem?
>
> Steve WA9JML
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