[TenTec] Repair history for Orion

[Ron Castro]

My O2, from the very first production run of December 2005 (I bought it in 
January 06 after the original owner sent it back) has had only one trip back 
to Dolly Parton Parkway and that was for the well-known power distribution 
board problem.  The second time that happened, I fixed it myself.  I also 
installed and tested a prototype of the plug-in board that fixed the 
headphone RFI problem and is now standard on all new O2's.  I use my Orion 
II every day, usually for 6-8 hours on weekdays, and 14-16 hours on 
weekends.  I do SSB, CW and RTTY contests and DX as well as ESSB, all in a 
very high RF environment.

Recently, a big contester moved in about 1.5 miles away and I have measured 
his 160 m signal at about -13 dBm (an honest S9+60!) on my sloper, yet in 
the recent 160 contest, I was able to work stations as close as 500 Hz away 
from him while he was CQing.  At 3 kHz away, I didn't even know he was 
there!

         Ron   N6IE
      www.N6IE.com

>            Art WA8VSJ
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John K Gotwals" <john at gotwals.com>
> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:25 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] Repair history for Orion
>
>
>> Listed below is the repair history for my Orion. I have been very happy
>> with
>> Ten-Tec's service, but I am curious if my service history for my Orion
>> approximates the experiences of others.
>>
>> Orion purchased new from factory in August, 2005
>> Replaced fried logic board components in March, 2007
>> Replaced bad capacitors on power distribution board in July, 2007
>> Replaced bad display and bw encoder in December, 2008
>>
>> Luckily it is only a one-hour drive from my house to Ten-Tec, so I did 
>> not
>> need to go through the pain of packing  and unpacking the Orion for
>> shipment
>> by carrier.
>>
>> Does this repair history seem about right for an electronic unit as
>> complex
>> as an Orion? I should mention that my operating environment has sometimes
>> been in an rf-hot environment.
>>
>> John, N9JG
>>
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