[TenTec] Omni 6 (Option 1) Intermittent Audio

[Steve N4LQ]

Yea the phone jack on these things is the cheapes looking piece of junk i 
ever saw.
Steve Ellington
N4LQ at iglou.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Baron - KB3MM" <SteveBaron at StarLinX.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni 6 (Option 1) Intermittent Audio


> Yes, I had two instances of no aaudio from speaker - 1 month old Orion.
>
> The 1/4 inch phone plug was such that neither the phones or speaker had
> audio.  Just a small touch on the phone plug made it all work again.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve N4LQ" <n4lq at iglou.com>
> To: <robert.dwiggins at alumni.utexas.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
> <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 00:40
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni 6 (Option 1) Intermittent Audio
>
>
>> Check it with headphones and see how it sounds. Could be the headphone
> jack
>> needs cleaning.
>> Steve Ellington
>> N4LQ at iglou.com
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Robert Dwiggins II" <robert.dwiggins at alumni.utexas.net>
>> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 7:23 PM
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni 6 (Option 1) Intermittent Audio
>>
>>
>> I am experiencing the same audio symptoms that Chuck, AF4PP, describes.
> My
>> radio
>> is a Tentec Omni VI/Opt 3.  The problem started a couple of months ago,
> very
>> intermittently, but it's gradually gotten worse.  I originally thought it
>> was a
>> component or wire seating problem (and it may still turn out to be such a
>> problem), but jiggling was no help.  Rather, it acts like some component
> has
>> gone
>> bad because it's having these problems just about all the time now.
>> Sometimes I
>> can run the AF gain up and still get almost no audio, and what I do get 
>> is
>> muffled and distorted.
>>
>> So, if anyone knows what Chuck's problem is, it'll be a big help to me,
> too.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Bob NE5RD
>>
>>
>>
>>
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