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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