[TenTec] Omni 6+ mute?

[Barry N1EU]

Thanks for all the responses and the troubleshooting tips.  I'm going
to try and open up the Omni 6 sometime tomorrow and have a look around
and see if there's a quick repair that can be made.

73, Barry N1EU

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Ken Brown <ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net> wrote:
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>> Yes I have tried it...just now, and it does work very well.
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>>> Thanks but have you actually tried it?
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>>> My mute jack does NOT mute the receiver when grounded.
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> Then your Omni VI is broken. Repairing the Omni VI to make the mute
> input function properly is probably preferable to building a workaround.
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> The mute input may not work because someone has modified the rig to use
> the mute jack for some other function, or because something was
> connected there that should not have been and damaged the rig.
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> Look at "FIGURE 4-18. CONTROL BOARD SCHEMATIC (81596)"
> Check to see if D17 is intact. If it has not been removed then check to
> see if it is any good.
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> If someone modified the rig to use that jack for some other purpose I
> would expect to see D17 missing, and a wire connected from the J3 end
> D17 solder pad to whatever it is they wanted access to. In that case
> remover the wire and replace D17.
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> If it was damaged I would expect D17 to be open circuit. In that case
> replace D17.
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> DE N6KB
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