[TenTec] Reset on Omni V.9 with display troubles

Steve Berg wa9jml at tbc.net
Thu Sep 22 17:48:17 PDT 2011


Ever since I bought my Omni V.9, it had an intermittent frequency 
display.  It would quit working, and then I would take the covers off 
and wiggle the connections, clean them and generally, I could get it 
working right again for a while.  Earlier this year, it finally went 
from intermittent to not working at all, and so I pulled the board, and 
thinking that I might have a crystallized solder joint somewhere in it, 
carefully resoldered the entire display driver board.  It still didn't 
work.  So, I sent the board and eventually the entire radio back to the 
factory for repair.  It came back with another display driver board, but 
it seems that the two digits from the far right of the display come up 
on the left side of the display when the radio is powered up.  If I turn 
the radio off, and then turn it on while pushing in the red reset button 
on the right side of the radio, it generally goes to 14 MHz, and 
everything is fine until I shut it down and start it up again.

Does anyone here have any idea of what might be causing this?  If so, is 
there any reasonably easy fix for this problem?

Steve WA9JML


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