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Re: [TenTec] Red Screen

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Red Screen
From: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@storm.weather.net>
Reply-to: geraldj@storm.weather.net, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:05:41 -0600
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On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 17:46 -0800, Ron Castro wrote:
> It's not all that 'dreaded' of a problem, and it can be corrected by just 
> turning the sweep off and on from the front panel.  It's probably just some 
> sort of register overflow in the firmware that will require minor tweak to 
> fix.  I seem to see it only in relation to very strong signals (in and out 
> of band) including those caused by lighting strikes.

Maybe that's a "feature." Showing you that the receiver has received a
signal strong enough to be hazardous to the hardware.

> I mention that because 
> we almost never see lightning here on the northern California coast, but 
> yesterday we did, and I saw some red screens on my OII!
> 
>          Ron   N6IE
>       www.N6IE.com
> 
73, Jerry, K0CQ

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