[TenTec] Omni VI minor woes

[Bob McGraw K4TAX]

A comment on "properly designed system".   Yes this is true but the 
"system" is the radio, the cables, the software application, the 
computer, the computer operating system and it is all designed and 
configured by the operator.    There are many folks that make a darn 
good living doing "system integration".   And it is not just one item 
which they have to deal with.

And again, thank you Microsoft for your wonderful and timely updates.   
Just as we had things working, you came along, made things better, and 
broke the system.   You changed drivers and my "system" no longer 
works.  I had to revert to older drivers. !@#$%^&*( !!!

Now when one of the writers of an application updates it, the drivers I 
now have won't work, and I'll have to install the later drivers which 
Microsoft supplied.   It is somewhat like a dog chasing his tail.

73

Bob, K4TAX


On 7/15/2018 7:55 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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