[TenTec] Orion 565 no audio or transmit

[John Huffman]

Barry -

I hate intermittent problems.

I cleaned all pins and connectors on the front panel and cleaned the 
cable pins that plugged into the front panel and backplane.  I used 
Deoxit.  It worked, put it back on the desk, it didn't work.  I will 
have time tomorrow to start going through each board.  Chief suspect A9.

The 1 watt is not steady.  It will be one watt than.5w than zero then 
some other fraction.  When the audio is off, it is off for both main and 
sub and my XG-1 50uv signal cannot be heard.

73 de K1ESE
John


On 5/15/2013 7:21 PM, Barry N1EU wrote:
> John, let us know what happens after the connector reseating.
>
> With that 1 watt xmit output, can you hear the signal on the correct
> freq on another rig (assuming you have one)?  No rx output from either
> main or sub receiver?  Can you feed it a strong local signal and see
> if you hear that through the Orion rx?
>
> 73/GL, Barry N1EU
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:50 PM, John Huffman <hjohnc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Barry -
>>
>> Yes, a few times.  I'll work on the connectors first.  Thanks for the help.
>>
>> 73 de K1ESE
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/15/2013 5:08 PM, Barry N1EU wrote:
>>> Before you break out the tools or packing tape, have you first tried a
>>> Master Reset, RAM Clear or re-flash of the firmware?
>>>
>>> 73, Barry N1EU
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Carl Moreschi <n4py3 at earthlink.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Pull the front panel and spray all the cable connectors.  Unplug each
>>>> connector, spray them, and then plug them back in and out at least 10
>>>> times
>>>> to clean them.  There's at least 100 connections in there, each one with
>>>> its
>>>> own symptom.  That fixed mine when I had an intermittent problem.  The
>>>> fact
>>>> that the problem is intermittent points to a cable connection.
>>>>
>>>> Carl Moreschi N4PY
>>>> 121 Little Bell Dr.
>>>> Hays, NC 28635
>>>> www.n4py.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 5/15/2013 3:36 PM, John Huffman wrote:
>>>>> The last two days I have had an intermittent problem with my Orion 565.
>>>>> I have no receive audio or just white noise. When this happens no
>>>>> transmit output over 1 watt. Screen shows proper tuning and mode
>>>>> selections, but you can't hear anything or only hear white noise.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas before I send it in?
>>>>>
>>>>> 73 de K1ESE
>>>>> John
>>>>>
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