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

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Yep Jim. And it's the main cause of premature baldness among Hams.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Allen <jim.allen at longhornband.net>
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, Jul 6, 2015 01:12 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni 6 Plus: No RX or TX on 10 meters (Intermittent)



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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>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 <<a href="mailto:raf_3 at msn.com">raf_3 at msn.com</a>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 
>

> 73,
> 
> Allen--W7GIF
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 
>
From: Jim Allen<<a href="mailto:jim.allen at longhornband.net?">mailto:jim.allen at longhornband.net</a>> 
> 
> To: Discussion of
Ten-Tec Equipment<<a href="mailto:tentec at contesting.com?">mailto:tentec at contesting.com</a>> 
> 
> Sent: Monday, July 06,
2015 5:46 AM
> 
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni 6 Plus: No RX or TX on 10 meters
(Intermittent)
> 
> 
> 
> I'm glad you found the fix.
> 
> 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?
> 
> 73 de W6OGC Jim Allen 
> 
> Sent from my
iPad
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>> On Jul 6, 2015, at 7:39 AM, Joe Papworth via TenTec
<<a href="mailto:tentec at contesting.com">tentec at contesting.com</a><<a href="mailto:tentec at contesting.com?">mailto:tentec at contesting.com</a>>> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> First, thanks to Paul at Ten Tec for pointing me in the
right direction and to Mark, K8VF, and others for their suggestions.
>> 
>>

>> Paul was right. The problem was on the Xtal Osc/LO board. The repair
process went like this:
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 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)
>> 
>> 
>> Later, Joe
>> 
>>
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