Have you noticed any improvement after the jumper installed?
k7puc
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From: Warren J. Walsh <warrenw@pentek.com>
To: Tentec@contesting.com <Tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Monday, February 28, 2000 12:59 PM
Subject: [TenTec] OMNI-VI Birdies
>
>In going back through the recent list archives, I came across several
>emails concerning OMNI Noise. I did some private corresponding with Piotr,
>who graciously provided me with additional information on the mods he did
>to the Logic Control board. This past weekend I removed the Logic Control
>board from my OMNI-VI+ and looked it over. What a surprise, being a
>digital designer, I was very concerned by the quality of this board. I
>cannot believe there were so few de-coupling capacitors on the digital
>section of this board, and the size of the power/ground traces is
>appalling. I also cannot believe it would have increased the cost that
>much to have had a power and ground plane. I did find that there is
>approximately a 5 Ohm resistance between VCC pin 26 and VCC pin 57 of the
>DSP chip, this is NOT good. I soldered a jumper between these two pins. I
>would suggest that anyone who has an OMNI-VI check this out.
>
>73
>Warren Walsh - K2BM
>
>
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