[TenTec] Hi SWR!?!?!

[Dale L Martin]

I'm seeing a similar thing on my Omni VI, except it's popping the PS breaker
at about 8 or 10 watts on the low bands and about 25 watts on 10m.

I also get some intermittency or breakup/down of some sort as I slowly run
the power control up and it gets close to the point where it wll trip the
breaker.  I've swapped power supplies with my Omni VI+ and there's no
difference (so that should kill one of the Svc Mgr's favorite pet
references).

Fortunately, it's radio number 2 on the desktop and since I use it QRP in
contests, it's not that big a problem--if it starts tripping at 5w or below,
then it will be a big problem.  But it is going to TT service after ARRL DX
CW.

73,
dale, kg5u

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-admin@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-admin@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Robert
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 00:41
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] Hi SWR!?!?!
>
>
> My usually rock solid Omni VI+ is doing an auto shutoff when I put any
> power above about 50 watts into the Cantenna dummy load, and into the
> Thunderbird. I don't understand what is happening, I pulled all the coax,
> ran a short (5') piece of RG8 from the VI+ directly to the dummyload, and
> it still popped the shutoff.. I put the digital SWR meter back inline and
> gave it juice again, and, the swr meter show a peak of about 1.46:1 (high
> in my book) but I cant seem to get any output power without the power
> supply shutting down.. Anybody seen anything like this before?  I
> am going
> to measure SWR on the tuner to see if I see anything strange, but, it is
> completely out of the loop right now...
>
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