My O2 will sometimes exhibit a complete blanking of the sweep window. It is
infrequent, transient and aperiodic. I haven't noticed any correlation with
heat or the length of time the radio is turned on. The blanking is just a
fraction of a second. It isn't very objectionable, but I am afraid it signals
an upcoming failure. I am currently on 2.039d which seems to be the best of
the releases since I acquired the Orion a year ago. Has anyone else seen
blanking problem?
By the way - I picked up an IC-7000 at Dayton for use in my car. It has an
excellent set of manual notch filters, which I really miss on the Orion. I
really wish Ten Tec could get the notch fixed; it is essentially redundant
with the AN as it currently stands and not very useful.
Thanks -
Keith
AC9S
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