[TenTec] Omni-V TR problem

[waltk8cv4612amos at att.net]

Sticky reed relay. They are cheap enough, but you have to take the whole 
back of the radio apart. Not for the faint of heart !

Walt K8CV Royal Oak, MI.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Matheny" <mathenyr at marietta.edu>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:29 AM
Subject: [TenTec] Omni-V TR problem


> During this past weekend's fray in the Pennsylvania QSO party with the
> Omni in "Ole Rusty", I encountered a problem with failure of the receiver
> to recover to full sensitivity after a transmission.  Only noted on SSB,
> but the problem is so intermittent that I can't say for sure that there
> were no failures on CW.  Pressing the PTT and releasing seemed to clear
> the problem.  Strong signals were able to get thru OK, but anybody less
> than S6 or S7 got lost.  The RX audio didn't sound quite right during
> failure either, but I didn't explore that issue carefully.
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> Has anybody else hit this problem??  Have not called TT service; hopefully
> they are busy working on software and I wouldn't want to slow that
> down....
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> Ralph Matheny
> K8RYU
> 207 Gibbons Place
> Marietta Ohio  45750
> mathenyr at marietta.edu
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