[TenTec] Omni VI with Opt. 3 Info Needed

[Jerry M Judy]

Jim, that is what I did,bought the 564 manual and made the little plus signs 
that are on the 564. I have some made up if you would like the   "plus" I 
will include aa pix.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Reid" <reidj021 at hawaii.rr.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 8:33 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Omni VI with Opt. 3 Info Needed


> Hi all,
>
> I am now back on the list!  Been off for a time
> fooling around with digital electronic organs,  still
> am.  Sold all my previous Ten Tec gear - Orion I;
> RX-340,  gave away my Corsair II to a new young
> ham down on the Big Island,  NH7ZE last week,
> sold my Henry linear also.  All the cash raised from
> that went into my new dual Opteron PC for running
> Hauptwerk,  for those who might care to know,  hi,
> and other goodies for that project.
>
> Anyway,  just bought KH6FMT's Omni VI,  an original
> Model 563, which he seems to have had upgraded through
> Opt 1, 2, and 3.  Not sure if it was part of Opt. 3,  but
> in 2000 he had the original oven controlled reference crystal
> oscillator replaced with a TXCO reference!? Not sure why,
> as I thought the oven control provided "tighter" frequency
> stability.  My Orion had "only" the TCXO and it would drift
> some 50 Hz or more over the first 90 minutes or so of
> operating use.  Not a big deal, but it did bother me.  Of
> course the RX-340 was rock steady as I had it ref'd with
> the hp satellite rcvr to the GPS system,  but no way to tie
> that into the Orion,  well at least the one I had.  Wonder,
> will the Orion II have provision for an external freq. ref.?
>
> My present problem is that the manual FMT provided to me
> with the 563 is for that version.  There is no info about what
> those various options have done.  Most of the buttons on the
> right hand end of the rig are completely different from the
> buttons shown in the 563 manual!  Would like to set the
> clock,  for example.  The original manual shows a button
> for that purpose; now I suppose it must be in the menu
> somewhere, which I have yet to try to operate!
>
> Anyway,  wonder if someone could give me a hint about
> where in the list achieves I might learn what Opt. 1, 2,
> and 3 were and how the functions changed/added ought
> to be used.  Maybe just buying a manual from TT for
> the Omni VI+,  the 564 model,  is what I should do.
> Or would that be the wrong thing to do??  Yes,  some
> of you will recall that I had a 564 for a time, even
> loaded it up with Inrad filters,  but sold that,  the filters
> and manual away several years ago.  I didn't use many
> of the menu features of that rig at the time anyway, but
> did use the DSP button a lot.  I don't see a DSP button
> on this particular 563+ opt's,  but maybe I just don't
> recognize it,  or maybe the CW DSP function was not one
> of the three Opt. upgrades.
>
> Oh,  very sorry to have learned via the July QST that my
> beloved Orion rig features sparring partner,  George,  W5YR,
> the Yellow Rose of Texas became a Silent Key sometime
> earlier in the year.  I had been out of touch with him for some
> time,  so only learned of his passing accidentally seeing his call
> in the Silent Key list that month.  Some of you may recall
> the spats we had over Ten Tec vs. other's rigs,  etc.  Looking
> back,  was all in good fun I am sure.
>
> Nice to be back and 73,
> Jim  W6KPI
> (Oh,  went back a fetched my original 1950 Class B call;
> just never felt good about the Hawaiian KH7M, or previous
> AH6NB calls.  So claimed my original back!)
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