I'd personally still do more troubleshooting. Doing things without cause to
do so has gotten me into bunches of trouble.
With a little SW reciever placed close to the circuit, switch from band to
band, and check to see of the oscillator is going on each band. If there are
bands where the carrier cannot be recieved, check the crystal, sockets,
oscillator compoents and the rotary wafer that switches that section. If you
can pick up all of the frequencies, then the trouble is futher down the
line.
David Goncalves
W1EUJ
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Louis Ciotti <lciotti1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the tips. If cleamging does not work I am wondering if i
> could "touch" up the solder by heating the pins from the exposed side with
> out damaging the plastic. Probably not a good idea but that board looks
> like a bear to get out.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Goncalves <davegoncalves@gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 5:12 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni A-D Series B Con't
>
> Had the same problem with my Omni-D. Do clean the crystal pins and sockets
> first.
> Sockets can be cleaned with a toothpick moistened with DeOxit.
>
> Is that don't completely fix it, you can tighten up the crystal sockets by
> using a toothpick (again!) to try and squeeze the two sides of the socket
> cup tighter.
>
> Removing that board should be your LAST resort.
>
> David Goncalves
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Louis Ciotti <lciotti1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So I took to cover off ans was poking around. I found that if I bush
> > down on the crystal socket, the non-working bands come alive. So at
> > this point I am assuming a bad solder joint at or near that point.
> > Now I just have to get brave enough to get that board out. It has
> > some of the band switches on it and am wondering how to get that
> > "chain" off so I can remove the board to get at the bottom side.
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