[TenTec] Omni 6 Plus: No RX or TX on 10 meters (Intermittent)

[Jim Allen]

So the new radios have a built in failure mode that the "boat anchors" did not?

That's unnerving?

73 de W6OGC Jim Allen 

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> On Jul 6, 2015, at 10:25 AM, A R <raf_3 at msn.com> wrote:
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> Welcome to the lead-free world of RoHS. Your spools of 60/40 solder are NOT RoHS-compliant...but will likely improve reliability of solder connections which are subjected to the stresses of expansion/contraction of dissimilar materials due to thermal excursions. Sn-Pb is more ductile, and as a result more tolerant of the thermal excursion stresses, than the RoHS-compliant solders. 
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> 73,
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> Allen--W7GIF
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> From: Jim Allen<mailto:jim.allen at longhornband.net> 
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> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment<mailto:tentec at contesting.com> 
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> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2015 5:46 AM
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> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni 6 Plus: No RX or TX on 10 meters (Intermittent)
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> I'm glad you found the fix.
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> Why is it there are so many re-solder fixes these days.  I don't recall ever hearing about resoldering on the old gear.  Anybody ever have to fix a 75A4 or SX101, etc. by resoldering some connections?
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> 73 de W6OGC Jim Allen 
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> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Jul 6, 2015, at 7:39 AM, Joe Papworth via TenTec <tentec at contesting.com<mailto:tentec at contesting.com>> wrote:
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>> It appears to be fixed and in repairing it, I fixed another annoying problem, which was spurs and floaters on ten meters only. Those had been plaguing me for several years.
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>> First, thanks to Paul at Ten Tec for pointing me in the right direction and to Mark, K8VF, and others for their suggestions.
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>> Paul was right. The problem was on the Xtal Osc/LO board. The repair process went like this:
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>> 1) I looked at the schematic of the board and saw there are 4 separate xtal
>> ? ? oscillators for ten meters (I assume one for each 500 Khz band segment)
>> ? ? Since I was losing the entire band, I knew it wasn't one of those circuits.?
>> ? ? That eliminated a lot of circuitry as a possible cause.
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>> 2) After reading the theory of operation, I pretty much narrowed things down ? ? to the L9, L10, and L11 circuits, plus the Q4 and Q5 circuits.
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>> 3) I resoldered every component in those areas and voila, no more spurs or
>> ? ? floaters and so far, RX and TX are fine. (I'm fairly certain the rig would
>> ? ? have failed?by?now)
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>> Later, Joe
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