[TenTec] No xmit?

Charles Mark Cring n8coo@juno.com
Mon, 5 Aug 2002 00:43:42 +0100


It seems to me awhile back someone had the same problem and they
mentioned that the jacks themselves for the TXOUT and TXEN were
intermittant and needed resoldered to the board they mount on (?)  May
have been on the other Ten Tec reflector...

Mark N8COO


On Sat, 3 Aug 2002 17:17:10 -0500 Duane A Calvin <ac5aa@juno.com> writes:
> Just started in NAQP and am having a repeat of a problem I saw in the
> RTTY NAQP that I thought was antenna-related.  It's not.  Hoping 
> someone
> can point me in the right direction since finding my way through the 
> VI+
> manual in a hurry is not netting me any results.  My Omni VI+, Nov 
> '97
> vintage, has a problem where, intermittently, it will lose transmit. 
> 
> Sidetone continues to operate, and (at least a couple of weeks ago) 
> Tune
> would output full power while transmit would not.  It has worked in
> between, but about 30 minutes into the NAQP CW, power out dropped to 
> zero
> again.  I tried cycling the power supply (nil), and the heat sink is
> barely warm (unlike in the RTTY!).  Any suggestinos of where to 
> start?  I
> can't even find which board does the TR switching...
> 
>         73,  Duane
> --------------------------------------
> Duane Calvin, AC5AA
> Austin, Texas
> 
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