Hey Dick. My Orion 1 was doing something similar. Signal Dead or gone to
someother where. Can you turn the main encoder and freq numbers are moving
but the people talking doesn't change? Or same band but infrequently and
comes back. Comes back mostly by off/on. Tony worked on it and fixed it.
When I first call Tony he said it sounded like the synthesizer board was the
problem. Like it unlocked randomly. But my randoms were getting closer
together. It was the ATU. It had been put in after market " LDG OT-11P " and
had some wires wrong place. I didn't put it in, but I know who did and he
paided bill. Tony pulled the ATU out fer me and I checked. It was ok believe
it or not. How can you hook up 4 wires wrong. Go figure. Same systomps. May
not be it by a long shot but something anyway. Call Tony at TT. 73, Roger
w4iv, Music city, tn. Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Jim M.
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 7:36 PM
To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'
Subject: Re: [TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? (red screen)
Oops. This could be bad for FCC certification!
-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Dick Williams
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 8:30 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? (red screen)
Just my two cents worth. I have been running color 7 (which is a lot of
red) and as of yet (knock on wood) to observe the red sceen on either the
waterfall or spectrum.
The only abnormal thing I have observed is the receive suddenly going dead
on a particular band. This morning about 10 mins after working YI1AZ on 20M
RTTY, I noticed the band seemed very dead. I swithed to CW and sent out a
couple of "dids" to confirm I was at least transmitting. Everything
appeared normal, so I swithced to 40M and the receive was fine. Swithed
back to 20 and again a dead band. Turned the O2 off and then back on; low
and behold, all kinds of signals on the band.
I had a similiar problem on 17M a couple months ago where all of a sudden
the SWR on my 17M beam was "out to lunch". I put the tuner in line and
matched the radio to the load. I was thinking something had gone wrong with
the beam, but I decided to see what the Alpha 87A said. When I keyed the
radio with the amp in line I got an immedate fault of "attempt to transmit
on invalid freq".
I thought that was funny, so I cycled the power on the O2 and be damned if
the SWR on 17M was where it should be. Checked the amp again and everything
worked fine.
Have no idea what freq the O2 decided to"wonder off to", but cycling the
power fixed the problem
Dick K8ZTT
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