Martin: Here is a link that I used to upgrade a 565 to 1.373b3 http://www.n5na.net/orion/index.html I used 1.373b3 at Field Day this year and had no failure problems in 24 hours of heavy use. I was v
Ken: Far from what some folks may have said, the Orion II bandscope is far from "useless", and it will apparently be improving in the next month or so when the next major firmware update is released.
With all due respect to W8JI and ON4UN, there has been a lot of more recent research done by commercial AM broadcasters over the past couple of years regarding elevated radial systems for vertical ra
Any chance you can post that photo? Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com Well, Mike, this is most distressing. My friend is going to be furious. I'm a little upset myself, because I was told by the engineer respons
I'm a former Navy CT(R-Branch), Navcomtracen, Pensacola FL (WA4ECY) and Navcomsta Kami Seya, Japan (KA2KS). Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com -- Original Message -- From: "Carl J. Denbow" <n8vz@qth.com> To: "Joh
Ken: I was a Hyperlog user for many years and I know how good the program was for doing what the DX'er wanted done, quickly without a lot of "flash and trash". Unfortunately, after many months of res
Jerry: Sometimes excising the knob will make the encoder start working again, at least for awhile. The long and short of it is that you will probably have to replace the encoder. Ron N6IE www.N6IE.co
This is a very curious problem, and many of the posts we have seen here seem to indicate that it may have something to do with the through-plating on the double-sided circuit board. Look very careful
It works great on my Orion II and the mouse scroll-wheel tuning control is very nice! Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com -- Original Message -- From: <n4py@arrl.net> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@
Good detective work! Let us know if that is ultimately the problem. Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com I have a theory on the Orion XIT/RIT problem. I now think the problem is with the ribbon cable that is connec
There are still several for sale on e-bay, ranging in price from $135 to $175 each, including one that claims "New in box! Never not open!" I suppose the show up at ham fests too. There were quite a
The mic preamp, which contains an audio AGC is bypassed. The AGC actually works pretty good and uses the same chip as the W2IHY EQplus. If you have an external processor with high level output, feedi
I can't remember off the top of my head how the skirt is secured to the knob, but you can get the knob off by sliding the rubber finger-grip forward and off the front of the knob. That reveals the se
About 10 months ago, the capacitors on the A9 Power Distribution board failed, and I sent the radio back to the factory to get it fixed. Well, just 10 months later, the same thing happened again. Thi
I just changed that page to .html, so it should work with Firefox. Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com For Firefox users like myself, you'll need to use Internet Explorer to view Ron's web page on this fix. Firefo
I can see RF and power supply problems causing the first failure, but that A9 board capacitor problem seems to hit everyone eventually! Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com I purchased my Orion in August of 2005 fr
Hank: Excellent analysis! Can I please link to that from my page? I believe, based on this link that there is a direct connection between ESR and ripple ratings: http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/Ca
Whoops... that last link was: http://n6ie.com/A9_Fix.html Ron N6IE www.N6IE.com Hank: Excellent analysis! Can I please link to that from my page? I believe, based on this link that there is a direct
I hope it will run more than 2,000 hours too! According to Hank, that number gets multiplied by a factor for lower temp, in this case 1.7 for 80 degree C operation (it's actually much cooler than tha
Hopefully we have made enough noise here that TT heard us and is aware of the problem! They should re-evaluate the specs for these capacitors and immediately upgrade their unsold stock and future run