[TenTec] Orion RX and Monitor "Going To Sleep"

[Jack Emerson]

this used to happen to my Orion on cw. as a general rule, i found that in
my case, if i turned the sweep off, the receivers stayed on. if i operated
cw with the sweep on, it was just a matter of time before the receivers
went out.
 as someone else pointed out, the radio can have the same problem
occasionally when you first turn it on as well. it seems to me that if i
remember correctly, when it happened at turn on, i could fix it by toggling
the receivers between vfo's a and b, then turn it off and back on.
this happened with version 1.xx software, but i don't recall  whether or
not it was with all 1.xx versions.
73 de jack w4tje

> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Rosenberg W3DQ <w3dq at arrl.net>
> To: Orion Reflector <orion at contesting.com>; Ten Tec Mailing List
<tentec at contesting.com>
> Cc: <rick.williams at telus.net>; <dtsnbits at rfsquared.com>; Peter Alterman
<peter_alterman at hotmail.com>
> Date: 2/19/2007 8:37:24 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] Orion  RX and Monitor "Going To Sleep"
>
> During the ARRL DX contest this past weekend, my Orion (v1 w/1.373b5 
> firmware) went to sleep about 6 times, just as VE7TK described it in his 
> email of April 5, 2006 below.
>
> Only once were we (W2CDO, who was the other op, and I) conscious of what 
> may have been the cause -- when we plugged in a headset, and then only 
> once when we did that.
>
> All the other times, we individually noticed that while the noise floor 
> seemed the same, there were no signals to be heard.  We ended running an 
> ever so slight amount of audio from the B VFO to monitor things.
>
> The monitor and sidetone functions also died twice, unrelated to the 
> receiver dying.
>
> In both cases, powering down and back up cured the problem. But when 
> you're CQing during a contest, those seconds lost are crucial.  You lose 
> the Q's and the run frequency!
>
> Has anyone figured out what's going on here?
>
> 73,
> Eric W3DQ
>
> ------------------
>  From VE7TK:
>
> I am having some issues with static and my Orion 565. When I first 
> acquired my Orion I noticed that on occasion when I plugged in the 
> earphones the
>
> receiver would die.  All the lights were on but "nobody was home."  I
wrote it off as the wrong type of headphones 
> 8 ohm stereo).  
>  
> Time went by and I acquired some 60 ohm impedance David Clark stereo
headphones and tried them out.  
> Same problem!  This has occurred with both version 1.xxx and 2.xxx
firmware.  (I have reported the 
> symptoms to Ten-Tec Service and Ditsnbits.)
>  
> Now I carefully ground the tip, ring and sleeve before attempting to plug
in the phones but sometimes this doesn't 
> even work. It's a real pain if your trying to get some rare one and grab
the phones only to have the receiver die!
>  
> I'm on the wet coast and humidity is not an issue plus I don't own a cat
and the station is well grounded.  
>  
> Now the question - have others noticed this issue?  Turning the Orion Off
and ON rejuvenates the receiver.
>  
> Thoughts appreciated.
>  
> 73, 
> Rick 
> VE7TK
>
> Website:  http://www3.telus.net/ve7t <http://www3.telus.net/ve7tk>
>
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