Any real Orion Gurus have any ideas - This afternoon I was working a guy on
20 cw noticed the LCD display was blinking with keying . Tried changing
contrast etc etc no help. Looked at PS current - was under 20 amps key
down - power just under 100 watts . Tried into dummy load same LCD
flickering , same currents and power.
Tried other bands - no difference - Tried reducing power - no difference in
flickering until under 16 relative power setting. Decided to check power
supply (ASTRON 35 M ) voltage drops under load and fuse and DC supply - all
looked OK. less than half volt from 13.8 to 13.3 .
Turned off and mulled a bit - tried turning it back on and now it will not
boot - treid doing a RAM clear - could faintly see battery message at top .
OFF and ON and no difference will not boot. Tried a master reset - cannot do
it.
When the thing comes on the red ALC LED lights dimly - - the SYSTEM LOADING
message shows up dimly then fades out in about two or three contrast steps
every 5 seconds - repeats - sometimes the Smeter will light up breifly , a
relay clicks and it repeats but this is random. I might also note the LCD
display is sort of blue at turn on the goes to grey and black.
Any ideas for me tonight - ??? . It worked fine all weekend last weekend in
CQWWPH.Worked fine all week on random qso's - all cw.
Looks like I am most likely back to my TR7 for CWSS.
???? Thanks _ Hank K7HP
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