Denton,
I think you have cable connections that need cleaning. There's a lot of
connections behind the Orion front panel. It's easy to remove that
panel. Remove it and disconnect all the ribbon cables. Spray them with
a electronic cleaner spray. Then plug them in and out about 10 times
while they are wet to clean them.
This is a common problem because the Orion did not use gold pins. And
almost any symptom is possible. The key is the problems are always
somewhat intermittent.
Carl Moreschi N4PY
58 Hogwood Rd
Louisburg, NC 27549
www.n4py.com
On 10/21/2015 2:01 PM, denton sprague wrote:
well…shoot..
that lasted all of 1/2 hour!
The past week or so, I has been inoperative on boot up…
and it boots up with swishing noise that repeats itself or it seems to work but
can’t her anything but background (processor) noise, or receive sigs are way
down in the background.
So for the time being it will be designated back up rig in the closet…and will
run my omni 7 for the duration.
I also have a chance ti purchase an unknown condition orion sub receiver board
but not too sure want to mess with that.
I seems to be something that is not letting the sub receiver board connect to
the rest of the system correctly..
I have not yet done much in the way of diagnostics…but will take some time this fall
to pull the sub receive board and see if anything amiss…cold solder joints, etc, clean
contacts and trace down cabling.
On Oct 12, 2015, at 9:07 AM, denton sprague<denton@oregontrail.net> wrote:
a little followup..
sub rx was inoperable this am…booted up with sub rx on ant 1 and vfo b enabled
yesterday.
after letting the rig on for about 3 hours, I rebooted the rig with sub rx off
on the ant and vfo buttons.
after reboot, enabled sub rx on vfo b and ant 1 buttons. Sub rx now works
normally….
On Oct 11, 2015, at 11:27 AM, denton sprague<denton@oregontrail.net> wrote:
thanks…apparently that was it om!!
On Oct 11, 2015, at 11:13 AM, Tim Wininger<ky5rtim@gmail.com> wrote:
Need both SUB RX VFO and Ant1 SUB RX depressed.
That's how I use this sub rcvr hr. Hope it's just that.
GD Tim, AB4B
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:01 PM, denton sprague<denton@oregontrail.net>
wrote:
Hi all…my trusty Orion that came back from TT for processor board
replacement a few months ago seems to have no receive signals…this
happened this am when booting up the rig.
I use ant 1 as main rx/tx as well as sub rx.
I can hear the sub noise come up when pressing the sub rx button, but
evidently getting no signals from the antenna.
I have only one hf antenna.
Did a master reset to no avail.
loose cable maybe??
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