[TenTec] Omni D - possible VFO rebuild in my future

Barry N1EU barry.n1eu at gmail.com
Sun Jan 27 16:41:56 EST 2019


Good info here:  http://tentecwiki.eqth.net/doku.php?id=pto

Barry N1EU

On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 8:40 PM <tfr001 at myfairpoint.net> wrote:

> So I have an Omni D. Lately, the VFO knob has been getting much stiffer.
> It will sort of freeze wherever you leave it overnight... the next day, it
> will be very hard cranking and it seems like you have to crank it many,
> many more revolutions just to get it to move freq at all. If I crank it up
> and down the entire bandwidth, it will be servicable for the day, but next
> day back to the same thing.
>
> So am I looking at a rebuild here? Or maybe just a re-lube?
> I have not attempted to open the VFO before this... and sort of dreading
> it now.
>
> -Tom N1OOQ
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