[TenTec] Orion II men battery date?

[Tony Lelieveld]

I bought my Orion-II on May 05, 2006.  I did not buy the ATU as I had seen and advertisement from LDG who produced and sold an ATU for the O-II as an exact drop-in module.  It had many memories and other features which the O-II tuner from Ten-Tec did not have plus it was a lot cheaper in price.

Soon after my purchase of the tuner, others inquired about it but it had disappeared from the LDG web-site and became un-obtainium.  I figured that Ten-Tec made a deal with LDG to use their tuner in future O-II's.  (Disclaimer: this is entirely my speculation and I never discovered if was indeed fact.).  I can't find my manual right now but I believe that it was an "LGD-11 something or other"  The below email kind of confirms this.  It works great and I am very happy with it.

73, Tony VE3DWI.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A R" <raf_3 at msn.com>
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Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II men battery date?


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> My 565 Orion has the A14 autotuner, which has no battery. Although the manual calls out a p/n 81956, the A14 board in my Orion carries only marking: "LDG RG-11". Did TT equip Orions with (at least) two versions of the autotuner...one without battery (no memory), and one with battery (with memory)? Both my 565 and Version 4 566 manuals state on p.38 that  "There is no memory feature...".
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> Allen--W7GIF
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> From: Barry N1EU<mailto:barry.n1eu at gmail.com> 
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> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 2:07 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II men battery date?
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> The other battery is allegedly on the auto tuner
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> Barry N1EU
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> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Tony Lelieveld <va3dwi at gmail.com<mailto:va3dwi at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Hi Andy,
>>
>> Are you saying that there are two (2) batteries in the Orion-II?   I was
>> not aware of this.  Please enlighten me.  I only know of the Memory battery
>> module, the square Yellow one.
>>
>> 73, Tony VE3DWI.
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "P C Andy Anderson" <
>> xtraham58 at hotmail.com<mailto:xtraham58 at hotmail.com>>
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>> For the few bucks it costs, change it and the button battery as well. I
>> did mine at 10 yrs.
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>> Andy, W3LI
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>> ________________________________________
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>> Received a great Orion II couple of days ago….any way to tell the date of
>> the little memory battery, so as can determine when it was replaced?
>> Previous owners have no information.
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