[TenTec] Omni VI minor woes

[Stan Gammons]

Hi Mike,

My old brain hasn't relearned CW yet.  I know about half the alphabet if 
not sent more than about 18 wpm.  Maybe I can relearn it before I become 
a SK.

I meant the thread you started.  I didn't want to high jack it, so I 
started this one.

Yes, what Bob, K4TAX, was talking about is the windows power save 
feature will turn the USB ports off after x period of time.  I don't use 
window, I'm a long time Linux user, but it too has the ability to turn 
off the USB ports to save power.

Yes, I've heard great things about the Eagle receiver.  Too bad you 
weren't able to work KH1/KH7Z.  Yes, it will likely be a long time 
before it's activated again. I had the same problem with VP8. Doubt it 
will be activated again anytime soon either.  KH1/KH7Z was kind of 
spotty here at times, especially on SSB. Seemed like the last day they 
were there, signals were way up here on all bands and modes.  I managed 
to get in their log on 4 bands using the FT8 mode.  I beat on the Omni 
VI a bit doing that too.  The PA heatsink and the heatsink on 961 power 
supply both have fans. So, it never got all that warm.

Oh, I haven't seen the Omni VI throw the receive problem fit today. 
Maybe it was just tired, like me...

73

Stan
KM4HQE

On 07/15/2018 07:55 PM, Michael Tortorella wrote:
> Stan,
>
> I forgot to mention I was on CW, so probably ran about 30 Qs an hour, plenty
> of down-time between transmissions.  Yes, I was pretty tired by the end of
> it, and the Eagle did not start misbehaving until about the last hour or so.
> So I thought it might be heat-related, but really I don't think it got all
> that hot and the fan was doing what it was supposed to be doing.  Don't know
> how I missed "the other thread" you referred to, I have not seen anything
> else on the reflector recently on this.  It's only annoying because (1)I
> don't think this should happen in a properly-designed system (yes, I know I
> didn’t pay tens of thousands of $ for it but you know what the list price of
> an Eagle was and lots of people who would like to have one just can’t afford
> it or see the value) and (2)the doggone com port problem which does not seem
> to admit of a deterministic solution (you have to keep fiddling until the
> com port gods have had enough laughter).  Anyway, the receiver was great, I
> was hearing plenty of stuff I couldn't work because of my reduced
> vacation-setup antenna - but I never did hear the KH1 guys here in Downeast
> Maine and it's doubtful that will ever happen again in my lifetime.
>
> 73
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Stan
> Gammons
> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2018 8:24 PM
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] Omni VI minor woes
>
> I saw the other thread about the Eagle woes during the IARU contest this
> weekend.  My Omni VI ran during a lot of it as well.  It started
> throwing a bit of a fit near the end.  We were both tired I guess :)  At
> times when it switched from transmit back to receive, receive would be
> several S units lower than previously.  It would take a few cycles of
> transmit to receive in order to get the receive back to "normal"  It
> seem to do it more on 20 and 15 meters.  I didn't really notice it when
> I switched to 40 meters or the very few I worked on 80 meters.  Wonder
> if some of the relays on the low pass board are acting flaky?   If so,
> does anyone know if the relays in the Omni VI are the same as the ones
> in the Jupiter?  I have a bunch of the ones for the Jupiter.  Would be
> great if they are the same.
>
>
> 73
>
> Stan
> KM4HQE
>
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