[TenTec] Odd sound coming from my Orion 565

[Duane Calvin]

First thing that comes to mind is whether or not you've changed the
capacitors that have been such a plague on other Orions?

	73, Duane

Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
www.ac5aa.com  



-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Eric
Rosenberg
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 5:36 PM
To: ttbug; tentec at contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] Odd sound coming from my Orion 565

After a a long layoff, I was back on the air this weekend for the 10m
contewet. The shack configuratioin has changed a slight bit (a new computer
and N1MM instead of WriteLog), but that's it. I have been successfully
using a MicroHam Microkeyer II for some time.

Early in the contest, the radio went deaf, but both a Master and RAM reset
cured that (although I wish it hadn't happened!).

After the contest, I shut everything down. A few hours later, when I turned
the radio back on, it sounded like internal relays were clicking as I
turned the VFO encoders or other knobs. Ratatat-tat -- the sound (for those
old enough to remember) of a baseball card hitting the spokes of your
bicycle wheel. Not the heavy/clunky sound of an amplifier relay.

The radio seemed otherwise okay, although I didn't transmit with it. Resets
did not change  anything.

Does anyone have any idea what could be going on?

73, Eric W3DQ
Washington,DC
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