[TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? Red Scan WithVertical LinePatterns

[Gene Henderson]

Jim  if you will switch screen colors and find one without red in it the, 
red scan is gone.  This all depends on the screen color.  Try it.   Gene 
WB9HLA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim M." <jmiller1706 at cfl.rr.com>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:48 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? Red Scan WithVertical 
LinePatterns


>I have no nearby switching supplies.  But I wonder if the power supply does
> have something to do with it.  I am using a transformer based Astron 
> AS-50A
> regulated 50 amp supply, not the TT switcher.  Checked with a scope, no
> ripple.  Wonder what others are using, is there a common thread?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Bruce McLaughlin
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:04 PM
> To: 'Ron Castro'; 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? Red Scan With Vertical
> LinePatterns
>
> I get that one trace long red sweep on my Orion as well.  It does not seem
> to perform any useful function and I'm not sure why it is there. 
> Ordinarily
> it last for only a brief period and then the normal like trace with the 
> red
> peak traces returns.
>
> However, the other day I inadvertently left on a switching power supply
> which sits above the Orion's power supply and is normally used to power my
> (excuse the expression) K-3.  It is usually never left on but on that
> particular occasion I forgot and did not turn it off.  The display on the
> Orion went sort of nuts.  The Scope's background was red with regular,
> vertical, black lines.  The sweep was entirely red.  It remained like that
> until I switched off the other power supply and then everything returned 
> to
> normal.  I think the second power supply was generating RF hash which, I
> presume, got into the 12 volt line for the Orion.  I am sure this effect 
> is
> confined to my particular system and I am not suggesting any wider
> application but I did think it was rather peculiar.  The sweep system 
> seems
> rather sensitive to a number of outside influences.
>
> Bruce-W8FU
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Ron Castro
> Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 6:56 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? Red Scan With vertical 
> line
> patterns
>
> Jim:  That's exactly what I am seeing and what I believe has been 
> described
> by others.  The 'spectrum trace' red (which is a peak-hold trace) is all
> you're supposed to see and is one of the improvements over the previous
> versions.
>
>         Ron   N6IE
>      www.N6IE.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim M." <jmiller1706 at cfl.rr.com>
> To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 2:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] NEW Orion II/2.041XL Bug? Red Scan With Vertical
> LinePatterns
>
>
>> The radio had been running on Rx for a few hours, 20 and 80 meters.  The
>> 80m
>> band was dead, mostly just local line noise.
>>
>> I am now getting the normal white spectrum, but now behind it the entire
>> scan screen (up to the blue marker, is filled with red, first solid red,
>> then alternating red/black that starts at the top and walks downward, 
>> then
>> solid red again.  Occasionally the white spectrum trace will wipe itself
>> away from right to left.  Is this what you folks are seeing, or is this
>> new?
>> By turning sweep off and on again it began working correctly.
>>
>> Previously I had only seen this as a brief red spectrum trace (the white
>> trace disappears for a half second or so), and I thought this was what 
>> you
>> were seeing.  Just before this new phenomenon started, I was tuning and
>> happened to catch the spectrum in a "red only" trace...and it froze in 
>> all
>> red color as long as I would turn the tuning knob.
>>
>> I took some photos at:  http://s685.photobucket.com/albums/vv219/N4BE/
>>
>> Jim N4BE
>>
>>
>>
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