[TenTec] Orion with Dying Receiver

[Martin Sole]

Have you been through the various reset sequences, master reset, RAM clear
reset?



-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of K8JDC
Sent: 22 January 2011 12:06
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] Orion with Dying Receiver

Okay, well this thing is acting very weird.  I did some more testing tonight
and here's a quick summary.

- The main receiver is 99.999% dead.  It virtually never works now.  The
S-meter is frozen and the audio is either a hissing sound or absent (muted).
- The sub receiver works but only through the headphone jack.  It will
either put out a hiss or nothing (muted) to the speaker but it seems to be
acting fairly normally through the headphone jack.  I have toggled the Audio
menu settings for Left/Right/Speaker to swap things around but the behavior
remains the same.
- The sweep display (which I normally leave off) shows active RF on the main
receiver but the S-meter is frozen and no audio.  The last time the main
receiver actually worked a couple of hours ago, I was adjusting the RF Gain
and the S-meter suddenly froze and the receiver stopped working.
- The sweep display sometimes displays a flashing vertical stripe pattern
across the entire display.  This happens about 20% of the time.  
I've never seen this stripe pattern before.

Just thought I would pass some more info along in case any of this sounds
familiar to anybody.

Dave
K8JDC
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