[TenTec] Orion II men battery date?

Sun Jan 17 09:32:47 EST 2016

Further to the tuner/battery question .... the antenna tuner in my 565 
stopped working several weeks ago and I first contacted TenTec support 
for repair ideas and the best they could come up with was to change the 
battery.  I did this but it did not help the problem.  I went on and did 
some other service on the radio (replacing caps on A9 board, 
cleaning/reseating all plugs, measuring voltages, etc.  However, none of 
this helped the tuner problem.

During this process I got curious about the tuner and looked on the LDG 
website.  They had a tuner, the OC-11 model, that was listed as 
"discontinued" but appeared to be the identical tuner as the Orion 
tuner.  I contacted LDG support about ides for repairs and got a prompt 
response to the effect that they did not work on TenTec tuners.

I persisted with my questions and was told that the TenTec tuner had a 
battery on it and that LDG had never made a tuner with a button battery 
on it and that my tuner was a 100% TenTec tuner.

So, my tuner still doesn't work (but I don't really need it because the 
SWR on my antennas is fairly low and the radio works fine without the 
tuner activity.

It would be nice to get some info as to why the tuner just stopped 
working, but TenTec did not offer any ideas other than to change the 
battery.

The bottom line is that if your Orion 565 tuner does not have a battery 
then it is probably an LDG tuner.  If it does have a battery then it is 
a TenTec tuner.

On 2016-01-16 19:50, Tony Lelieveld wrote:
> 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>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 6:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II men battery date?
> 
> 
>> 
>> 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...".
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Allen--W7GIF
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 
>> From: Barry N1EU<mailto:barry.n1eu at gmail.com>
>> 
>> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment<mailto:tentec at contesting.com>
>> 
>> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 2:07 PM
>> 
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II men battery date?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The other battery is allegedly on the auto tuner
>> 
>> Barry N1EU
>> 
>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Tony Lelieveld 
>> <va3dwi at gmail.com<mailto:va3dwi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "P C Andy Anderson" <
>>> xtraham58 at hotmail.com<mailto:xtraham58 at hotmail.com>>
>>> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" 
>>> <tentec at contesting.com<mailto:tentec at contesting.com>>
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 3:08 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II men battery date?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> For the few bucks it costs, change it and the button battery as well. 
>>> I
>>> did mine at 10 yrs.
>>> 
>>> Andy, W3LI
>>> 
>>> ________________________________________
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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