[TenTec] 1.372 stability

[John Sheeley]

Habk 
A master reset or a ram clear reset or just do both.
That should solve a lot of your problem.
73
John WB4QDA

--- HENRY PFIZENMAYER <pfizenmayer at worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
> FWIW-  I have an Orion with 1.372 that is about two
> weeks old - For the past
> three days I have left the sweep off and I still get
> the "sounds like the rx
> is ok but no signals syndrome when going from tx to
> rx . Tx still transmits.
> " - Nothing will recover it other than the off/on
> cycle. Incidentally , I
> made a bunch of QSO's on both 80 and 40 cw after I
> put in a couple of
> filters and I decided to operate with no cover and
> see what happened. No
> lockups so I guess I can extrapolate that to mean I
> should leave the cover
> off ???? JUST KIDDING.!
> 
> Just for grins I put about 8 turns of the dc supply
> on a F240-J core right
> at the xcvr and still get lockups . A couple of the
> lockups took place after
> maybe an hour rag chew on 40 cw and had not even
> touched the rig during the
> qso -changed nothing - just key the paddle full QSK
> and one time the rx went
> dead , once the TX went dead - monitor sidetone
> still tyhere - meter still
> at full scale during keying - only reason I realized
>  the tx had quit was
> the guy broke me to ask if I had blown my new rig.
> Now I leave my ant tuner
> power meter active instead of watching reflected
> power. Nice "feature" is
> that at least the OFF/ON cycle comes back just as it
> was set before the
> glitch.
> 
> All my antennas are balanced dipoles coax fed , no
> end fed stuff , shack is
> dead for rf in my humble opinion.
> 
> Still like the Orion but sure need more stability,
> more qso interruptions
> with this rig in 2 weeks than with my TR7 in 25
> years .
> 
> Hank K7HP
> 
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