Amen!!!
Had sent my Orion in Sept. 6th - wasn't xmting. Got it back today -
exactly 2 weeks. No Charge!! Only cost-my
shipping to Ten-Tec was slightly over the 1 year warrantee. Mine was
new when purchased in 2004.
Repaired:
Besides replacing the transistors listed below, and most of the
updating of boards, etc. also re-aligned the
Synthesizer Board, etc. Also, something about the 'R' voltage
staying on during TX (?).
GREAT SERVICE!
Try that on the other manufacturers of Ham Gear.
73's
Joe, *****
At 05:47 PM 09/20/2005, you wrote:
>I thought I should report my recent great experience with Ten-Tec Service.
>
>I had to send back my Orion for repairs after I made a dumb
>mistake. To make a longer story short, while testing the T/R
>circuit in my SB-220, I think I got 110v ac on the line to the TX
>OUT connection and blew some T/R switching transistors. After
>about 2 weeks TT sent the Orion back to me and it was better than
>before. Besides replacing Q8,Q9,Q10 and Q11 on the CPU/DSP board
>they updated several boards. I bought my Orion as a demo and
>apparently it was made in 2002, since the serial no ends in a
>2. Here are the mods they made:
>
> Updated synthesizer board
> Updated power distribution board 3-#30662
> Updated ALC circuit on I.F. converter board
> Updated mic power supply circuit on CPU/DSP
> Added RFD filter to Mic cable 1-#81983
> Checked Alignment and operation and made a 48 hr burn-in
>
>The repair cost was very reasonable and they shipped it back
>promptly. Everything works fine now.
>
>And so does the QSK circuit added while restoring and updating my
>old Heathkit SB-220. I implemented the circuit designed by R.L.
>Measures, AG6K. It uses a vacuum relay for switching RF out, a reed
>relay for the RF in, and electronic bias switching. It works
>beautifully, switching in about 2 milliseconds, and is very
>quiet. I trigger it from the AMP 1 open collector output of the
>Orion. The SB-220 plate current is zero between dits and
>dahs. Zero to 1500 watts PEP in 2 milliseconds! Well, I do use an
>8 millisecond ramp setting on CW and there is a 15 millisecond delay
>set in the Orion. Hey, this is old stuff, but it was a fun building
>project. I will put the amp on Ebay later for sale.
>
>My thanks to Paul Clinton and his service group at Ten-Tec. Keep up
>the good work.
>
>Paul Gallier, WQ1C
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