- 1. [TenTec] Omni VI (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 15:59:46 +0200
- For inclusion in the TenTec Omni VI forum... Comparing normal band condx with my FT102, my Omni VI receiver has suddenly died though the transmit side works as per normal.. I can also pick up the cw
- /archives//html/TenTec/2017-09/msg00049.html (7,445 bytes)
- 2. Re: [TenTec] Omni VI Urgent (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 16:33:06 +0200
- Please cancel below as I may have given misleading information... will get back again when verified... Apols for inconvenience... Malc/F5VBU -- Original Message -- From: Malcolm McLeman To: tentec@co
- /archives//html/TenTec/2017-09/msg00053.html (7,951 bytes)
- 3. Re: [TenTec] Omni VI (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 16:41:13 +0200
- Thanks yours Barry regrettably my test equipment is very limited and looking inside the O-6 certainly looks a lot more formidable than my dear old Corsair2 along with the added problem of age (78) an
- /archives//html/TenTec/2017-09/msg00054.html (8,820 bytes)
- 4. Re: [TenTec] Omni VI (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:03:59 +0200
- Previous email refers (dead Omni VI on receive side).. Have replaced faulty PIN diode D8 on the BPF/Front End (81593)board and now have normal receive via the aux antenna input when activated but not
- /archives//html/TenTec/2017-10/msg00039.html (6,738 bytes)
- 5. [TenTec] Omni VI Spares (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 14:57:49 +0100
- Trying to source the BPF and the LPF/front end boards for the Omni VI... I don't want to give up on this wonderful rig and would be most grateful for any suggestions and/or assistance on where I can
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-01/msg00024.html (6,705 bytes)
- 6. Re: [TenTec] Omni VI+ (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 06:57:30 +0200
- Worst scenario is the T/R switching diodes on the BPF board. Take the top cover off then the speaker bracket at the back. Release coax lead 17 right hand back and inject a sig from antenna on there.
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-04/msg00021.html (8,477 bytes)
- 7. Re: [TenTec] Omni VI+ (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 07:24:22 +0200
- The diodes re available on the open market though the type numbers on the board differ from the O-6 manual .. Malc the board differ from the Omni VI cct diagram. Malc Gary Worst scenario is the T/R s
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-04/msg00026.html (9,909 bytes)
- 8. [TenTec] Omni6 intermittent fault (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:00:34 +0200
- Hi all... Fault symptom as follows:- At switch on Omni VI "motor-boating" before locking in then operates normally. Later it emitted a "drift-like" sound as if going out of lock and again returned to
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-06/msg00069.html (7,629 bytes)
- 9. Re: [TenTec] Omni6 intermittent fault (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:56:19 +0200
- Sounds like time to clean connectors. This generally applies to all radios which are 10+ years old. Never spray anything into the radio!!! Using a cotton swab such as a Q-Tip, apply contact cleaner t
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-06/msg00074.html (9,559 bytes)
- 10. Re: [TenTec] Omni6 intermittent fault (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:43:31 +0200
- Thanks Rick/Bob/Ken for your kind replies on contact cleaner which I'll investigate. I actually thought the problem went a bit deeper when I saw this on U-tube. Not so much the video but the comment
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-06/msg00079.html (10,881 bytes)
- 11. [TenTec] Omni 6 intermittent fault (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:17:55 +0200
- Mylast(s) and kind replies. Sorry for delay plus missing out the U-tube link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RnAC2PuuI8 and grateful on any comment re electrolytic failure in reply from WA4AOS
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-06/msg00110.html (7,411 bytes)
- 12. [TenTec] Omni VI switch on (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 07:04:19 +0100
- Omni VI switch on problem.. Can anyone throw further light on this problem or pinpoint exactly where the capacitors referred to in one of the comments to the u-tube video are exactly? https://www.you
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-11/msg00041.html (7,324 bytes)
- 13. [TenTec] (no subject) (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 06:59:43 +0100
- Omni VI switch on problem.. Can anyone throw further light on this problem or pinpoint exactly where the capacitors referred to in one of the comments are exactly? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rn
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-11/msg00042.html (7,405 bytes)
- 14. Re: [TenTec] (no subject) (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 07:11:14 +0100
- Have duplicated this msg as I inadvertently sent without subject. Can admin plese QTA.. Mni tks. F5VBVU Can anyone throw further light on this problem or pinpoint exactly where the capacitors referre
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-11/msg00043.html (7,644 bytes)
- 15. Re: [TenTec] Omni VI swith on (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:12:41 +0100
- Thank you Carl and I'll certainly investigate your answer though I do think the problem sound does appear to be temporary component failure as everything is fine when it kick-starts into normal oper
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-11/msg00049.html (7,755 bytes)
- 16. [TenTec] FT8 (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 17:17:05 +0100
- F5VBU station logging, digimodes and contesting software are firmly entrenched in an early desktop PC using Windows Xp Pro. Would like to try FT8 using a Win 7 laptop/Omni VI+ and was wondering if it
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-12/msg00040.html (6,687 bytes)
- 17. [TenTec] Fwd: Re: FT8 (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 20:39:38 +0100
- Thanks Jim.. Unlike a PC sound card with appropriate audio input/output I was wondering how a laptop could achieve same without a USB interfaceand if the Omni VI CAT control would appear somewhere in
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-12/msg00044.html (7,619 bytes)
- 18. Re: [TenTec] Scout 555 - no output (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 08:47:46 +0100
- A man after my own heart and exactly how I got my Omni VI back on the rails with only a multimeter and a hi-z crystal earpiece for RF sniffing. 73 What I'm going to propose you is going to sound a bi
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-12/msg00051.html (10,118 bytes)
- 19. Re: [TenTec] OMNI VI, IF/AF 81597 DOCUMENTATION (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 08:09:11 +0100
- Does this help Greg? 73 Mx et HNY to all. Malcolm/F5VBU/GM3UIN http://www.tentec.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Model_563_Omni_VI_Manualc964.pdf Thanks & Merry Christmas, Greg, W2GLS former WB2PPQ gs
- /archives//html/TenTec/2018-12/msg00099.html (7,963 bytes)
- 20. [TenTec] Fwd: Re: TenTec] Omni VI+: low TX and RX on 12 meters (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm McLeman <f5vbu@cegetel.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 06:51:30 +0100
- Although possibly not the answer to your problem a simple non test-equipment Omni VI test worth conducting regularly... As an almost sight-loss octogenerian who has (for the umpteenth time) just repl
- /archives//html/TenTec/2019-01/msg00001.html (7,873 bytes)
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