[TenTec] Onmi VI problem

Hawkins, Bill w5ec@digitalexp.com
Tue, 16 Dec 1997 19:24:45 -0600


My problem was described below, but after about a week it went away.
Ten Tec  and one answer I received here said to check the PLL circuit board
for cracks. I have not done that yet and will probably wait until it happens
again. 
I'll post it if I find anything.
Bill W5EC

>At 01:44 PM 11/28/97 -0600, I wrote:
>Here's a new problem I havn't seen here. It is on cw.
>I have been leaving the power supply on all the time and turning the 
>VI off/on with it's switch.Wednesday morning after being on about 30 minutes
>I began noticing signals were a bit rough. It got worse. After a while all
>signals
>sounded like a bunch of bad Cuban  stations. I turned the VI off with it's
>switch and left it off about 30 minutes then turned it back on. It was ok
>for a few minutes then started getting bad again. I turned the POWER SUPPLY
>off for the rest of the day. Yesterday everything seemed normal  for a
>couple of hours. 
>I turned the VI switch off until this morning. Everything was ok for about
>30 min
>and started to get rough again.

>Anybody seen this problem? Any Ideas? I probably have not checked enough 
>but it has me a bit worried.
>
>Bill W5EC





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