[TenTec] OMNI VII, Herc II, QSK

[Jon Kannegaard]

No. They don't work together in QSK and never did. To make them work short D11 on the control board of the Hercules II.

Hours of sleuthing and puzzling over the QSK circuitry and consulting with my friend Jeff (K6JCA) led to this conclusion. However, I could have found this out with a 5 minute call to Ten-Tec Service which I finally made after all the detective work.

Jon

PS: As long as we're on the subject of what Ten-Tec should build, how about a Hercules III? The II is a sweet amp if you don't mind the one cubic foot , 58 pound power supply.

On Apr 9, 2014, at 8:30 AM, k6jek wrote:

> Anyone using the OMNI VII with a Hercules II QSK?
> 
> It's not working here. I notice the H II drops the TX EN/Key out line from 4.1 to 1.2 volts when it's keyed. This doesn't seem to be good enough for the OMNI VII to think that TX really is enabled. 
> 
> Menu item in OMNI VII set to KEY LOOP ON.
> 
> Jon
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