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

[Steve Berg]

Thanks Carl, I will get one tomorrow and see what happens.

Steve WA9JML

On 9/22/2011 8:16 PM, Carl Moreschi wrote:
> The battery may be bad.
>
> Carl Moreschi N4PY
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> On 9/22/2011 8:48 PM, Steve Berg wrote:
>>
>> 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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