Jim: I never actually burned up a cap in mine, but I did let some 'magic smoke' out on at least one occasion, which prompted me to replace most of the caps with surplus Russian military doorknob unit
Gary: Do a search on e-bay for "doorknob capacitors" and you'll two pages of 'em! The 16 kV Russian military caps are what I used in my TT 238 tuner mod, and they seem to be every bit as good as thei
*All* of them are from overseas, from what I can tell! If you want originals, have you tried calling Ten Tec? Like others, I have found the prices at Surplus Sales of Nebraska to border on outrageous
It sounds like there is not enough output from the computer to drive the O2. Check to see if the ALC light is flashing. If everything is turned up on the computer and you're not getting ALC indicatio
Jim: I would look at the Navigator to see if there is an internal adjustment or perhaps a software adjustment. There is nothing wrong with driving the O2 direct from a soundcard, which is what I did
I observed the same things in my O2 regarding the power output readings. While the meter only seems to be accurate at the 100 Watt level, the power setting control is amazingly accurate. Using both a
That is beginning to make more sense, although the sine modulation may indicate there is a hum problem lurking somewhere! If you can't push the O2 into ALC range, the output from the Navigator is too
John: I had that same problem a few weeks ago on my Orion II and I found an old e-mail on the subject that you wrote in July of last year. Did the same procedure and the problem went away! Ron N6IE w
The excitement is building as Orion and Orion II owners anticipate the arrival of the first firmware update for their fine rigs in nearly two years. Never mind the Oscars, the Grammys, or even the Pu
Now, I don't want any disappointed ham to hang himself with a piece of RG-8/U! The lousy band conditions are depressing enough. Pass the Xanax... Ron Castro Chief Technical Officer Results Radio, LLC
3:57 pm in Sevierville, TN...still nothing on the website... Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com -- Original Message -- From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.
They're great CW ops there...maybe they should send out update in CW. We can copy it and type it in ;>) Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com Ten-Tec is waiting for the Internet II to be installed in Sevierville to
Certainly the IC-7800 is a very nice radio with a lot of "creature comforts", but for a loss of 15 dB of IMD performance, no thanks! Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com Hiya all, my concern is with their not impro
IIRC it was about 2 and a half years ago they showed the first prototypes which you can see at: www.n6ie.com/Elecraft.html They claimed that they production was being held up by FCC type-acceptance r
All right! Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com http://radio.tentec.com/file_download/130/Orion-Setup-2.041XL.exe Enjoy, 73 de Billy, AA4NU _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec
Jim: The old version is still posted on the downloads page, so if you want to go back, just load that one back into the radio. BTW...I'll be home from work in about an hour and a half and my first jo
Be sure to look in C:\programs files\Ten-Tec\OrionII Firmware Update Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com You have to download the self-extracting .exe file and run it and wallah, you'll see the what's new pdf file
Although I have only started with my testing, a few things are apparent: 1) Bandscope looks good and appears to use space on the screen much better. The 'cursor' is a nice touch and now the 'freezing
Yes...I saw that yesterday when I was testing the speech processor in "flame-thrower" mode. Turning the sweep on and off fixed the problem for me also. Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com I have noticed a couple o
I have noticed that the levels between the AF and RF AGC's are quite different. The AF is very low compared to RF. Ron Castro Chief Technical Officer Results Radio, LLC N6IE www.N6IE.com -- Original