[TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? (red screen)

[Jim M.]

Oops.  This could be bad for FCC certification!

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From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Dick Williams
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 8:30 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? (red screen)

Just my two cents worth.  I have been running color 7 (which is a lot of 
red) and as of yet (knock on wood) to observe the red sceen on either the 
waterfall or spectrum.

The only abnormal thing I have observed is the receive suddenly going dead 
on a particular band.  This morning about 10 mins after working YI1AZ on 20M

RTTY, I noticed the band seemed very dead.  I swithed to CW and sent out a 
couple of "dids" to confirm I was at least transmitting.  Everything 
appeared normal, so I swithced to 40M and the receive was fine.  Swithed 
back to 20 and again a dead band.   Turned the O2 off and then back on;  low

and behold, all kinds of signals on the band.

I had a similiar problem on 17M a couple months ago where all of a sudden 
the SWR on my 17M beam was "out to lunch".  I put the tuner in line and 
matched the radio to the load.  I was thinking something had gone wrong with

the beam, but I decided to see what the Alpha 87A said.   When I keyed the 
radio with the amp in line I got an immedate fault of "attempt to transmit 
on invalid freq".

I thought that was funny, so I cycled the power on the O2 and be damned if 
the SWR on 17M was where it should be.  Checked the amp again and everything

worked fine.

Have no idea what freq the O2 decided to"wonder off to", but cycling the 
power fixed the problem

Dick  K8ZTT 

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