[Orion] new owner issues

[Dean on Island]

Hi Dan,

I had similar difficulties with two Orions - an early production unit and a 
later production replacement radio.  These are not software related 
problems.  I suggest that you contact Paul at Ten Tec for guidance.  I 
suspect that he will recommend that you send the radio back for warranty 
replacement or repair.  Turn around time on repairs for me recently was 
about 1.5 weeks.

Good luck

Dean K3GGN
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At 03:43 PM 8/29/2004, Dan wrote:
>I just put a new Orion on the bench two days ago.  The radio is loaded 
>from the factory with the latest firmware.
>The first few times I operated it the radio became "dead on recieve" but 
>if I tuned down to the bottom of the 20 meter band there was the strangest 
>loud screaming (sort of  like a hetrodyning sound but very strange)..  I 
>rebooted, and restored factory default, problem seemed to go away.
>
>Now sometimes (all of a sudden without warning) the reciever will not tune 
>from input from the VFO. It is as if the VFO encode data somehow does not 
>make it to the reviever.. Only soulition is to tun the radio off then on again.
>
>Other problems are with the sweep function. Sometimes when the radio is 
>first turned on in the morning  the sweep is non functional, just sort of 
>frozen on a pattern that nevger changes. Later as the radio is run for a 
>whil, I turn it off and then on again and the sweep comes to life and 
>seems to go alon most of the rest of the day?
>
>Is all of the above typical software issues? or is it hardware related and 
>maybe if I ship the radio back to Ten Tec and they can fix it ?? or do I 
>just live with it ??
>
>-Dan
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