[TenTec] omni 6+/ power issue

[Wayne Dial]

Clayton, have you called TT?  They are very helpful.  If you send it in they 
charge $60 an hour.  I guess that is not all that bad these days.  My first love 
is cw and it is hard to beat the keying of TT rigs.  My first TT was a Argonaut 
509, I had a lot of fun with that little rig.

Wayne




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From: Clayton Brantley <clayton_n4ev at yahoo.com>
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 8:11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] omni 6+/ power issue

I wonder if my Omni VI has a simular problem?  The vfo is frozen at the top of 
each band.  Display says we are tuning as normal but we are not
seemed to start out a a loose joint (??) but now just sits at 5.xxx mhz.

Still want to send back to it's daddy to see if it is fixable.  Might be we 
could see if there is an interest in making new boards that would work in
these fine radios.   The Omni may be old, but they still hang in there with the 
best of the rest.

Clayton N4EV




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From: CSM(r) Gary Huber <glhuber at msn.com>
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 5:40:53 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] omni 6+/ power issue

Yes, the OEMICs being out of production was one of my reasons for selling my 
OMNI-VI+. But there should be a replacement solution even if it’s a new small 
board with several PICs to accomplish the same thing. I believe whoever finds 
the PIC replacement to keep the OMNI-VI+ line in service can make a lot of 
people happy and make a few $$$ at the same time.

73 es DX,

Gary - AB9M

-----Original Message----- 
From: Wayne Dial 
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 2:45 PM 
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment 
Subject: Re: [TenTec] omni 6+/ power issue 

Gary, I dug into the 6+ today and it has a missing clocking pulse.  I called TT
and was told some of the ic's are no longer available!  I only us 160-30m and 
the only bands that are low power are 20 and 17m.  So do I sell as is or just 
keep it?  Time will tell.

Wayne




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From: CSM(r) Gary Huber <glhuber at msn.com>
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sat, November 27, 2010 1:14:51 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] omni 6+/ power issue

My Omni VI+ which I sold last summer apparently had this symptom on one band 
and was sent to TT by the new owner for repair of the band pass board.


73 es DX,

Gary - AB9M

-----Original Message----- 
From: Wayne Dial
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 10:28 AM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] omni 6+/ power issue

My OMNI 6+ has a power issue on 20m and 17m, it drops to 50w output on 20m 
and
15w on 17m. All other bands are okay.  I've checked the output of the L.O. 
Mixer
board, port 26, across a 50 ohm load. 160m through 40m, the the output is 
800
mvpp and and drops to 100mv on 20m and up. I don't think it is the output
filters of the PA  because 20m and 17m don't share the same filter. The L.O.
Mixer is nested below another board so I can not make any measurements on 
that
board other than ohm meter readings.  Has anyone seen this before?

Thanks,
Wayne/w8aju
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