I pulled the oem fuse holder and jumpered in back of same... After installing Powerpoles in both my orion and Omni 7, I ran an inline fuse holder on the pigtail going to the power supply. ___________
I had a 229 TT kit tuner that I did same capacitor replacement.. To make the job a bit easier, I took out the screws holding the roller inductor and variable capacitor to the bottom cover, put a fold
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A bit off topic but... I am thinking of revamping my station's power supply setup. I have an Orion, Omni VII, 2 dual band uhf/vhf rigs and assorted item that use 13.8 vdc for running and/or charging.
you are right om...did google the 35M astrons and they appear to be the better ones of the lot. Will investigate upgrading regulator boards thou... I have an Orion, Omni VII, 2 dual band uhf/vhf rigs
well was digging around and found out this guy skipp025@yahoo.com was making better regulartor boards some time back...sent him an email but no response. I need to do some more digging...read an arti
A followup on my previous post...I forgot I did the below a few years back. One thing I did in the past was to use my homebrew 35 amp power supply with a blocking diode to feed a couple of golf cart
I have an Omni 7 that shuts down due to over current into a flat load...regardless of power output setting on 12 and 10 meters only. All other bands behave themselves. If I even tap the mic it will s
6 meters acts normally... I sent the rig to TT some time ago at least twice for same problem, but at that time it was intermittent...and they said could not find the problem. Finally it surfaced perm
Probably the swimming pool uses salt for conditioning. I just returned from The Villages visiting family, and their pool uses salt instead of chlorine. They have a bird cage as per regulations. I als
Hi all.. I have a TT Orion that has developed what looks like a purple blob in the lower left hand corner of the display...also on boot up of the rig in the am on a cool morning the display will be k
My Orion 1 display is just about toast...blob in lower left hand corner and the readout is starting to fade...a call to TT service dept. told me the display was broken...so have ordered a new display
This should help...nothing too expensive IMHO Memory battery...I was quoted $12.00 including ship for this Display(mine is shot) Orion 1....$150.00 Regulator board..the one that sometimes has the fil
Thanks to all that replied...here is a follow up...hope it makes another hams life a bit easier! I received a new lcd display, battery and regulator board..since I had to replace one of the bulging f
I have an Orion that sounds funny until it warms up a bit...sounds like the pll is drifting and then snaps back to feq and also sounds like it is on the wrong sideband...after the rigs is on for abou
Hi all... I am getting ready to set up a laptop for ham radio software and rig control only. I do not want to run any kind of antivirus progam on the dedicated laptop..and do not want it connected to
I have a Omni 7 up for grabs....has both filter slots filled with the oem collins filters and except for 12 and 10 meters works fb. For some reason, it does not have any rf output on those bands and
I will take $1500.. that includes ship insured to your qth and will throw in the mic. How much for the Omni 7 ??? -- Original Message -- From: "denton" <denton@oregontrail.net> To: "Discussion of Ten
never mind..think will keep it..... How much for the Omni 7 ??? -- Original Message -- From: "denton" <denton@oregontrail.net> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com> Sent: Sund
Another advantage of those old link coupled transmatches is their ability to reject out of band signals...they pretty much function as a band pass filter. Rick, TNX for the spreadsheet - it's an inte