Yeah I fat fingered the inrad comment. Yeah I might go for the filters
later. I did the audio mod and sounds a bit better.
I'm using an old Icom IC-SP3 speaker from an R71 RX. Always sounds good on
that one.
Where did you buy the multi turn pots from, Paul? Sounds like a really good
idea.
Got the Omni cooking now and working real nice. Soon as I flip the power
switch I get no discernible drift.
Don
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:02 PM, <elespe@lisco.com> wrote:
> I just hated to drill the extra holes in otherwise un touched radio
> When I design a retrofit board IK0UYA try real hard to make it look factory
> I assume you mean Inrad not Inland?
> I have the 2.8 filters from Inrad and if you like a good sounding radio
> you will LOVE those filters but if you do I will caution you to change the
> carrier balance pots to multi turn type or you will NEVER get the carrier
> supression adjusted.
> I did not do the audio mod which really only lowers the notch freq to low
> end of pass band, I just leave mine set on the high end---radio is too
> hissy anyway.
> I opted to spend $10 for a miniature hi fi speaker that fits the existing
> cutout so I can have good sound from the internal speaker.
> All in all a really nice rig for ssb now.
> Paul
>
> > Thanks so much Paul. I like what you did on the install. Mine has not
> > failed after all these years. Just upgrading to stay out of trouble
> since
> > they don't make the oven any longer.
> > Yeah I guess it does look like a slap dash kind of approach to this
> > Upgrade, but it does work well.
> > Next is the Inland audio fix. I also got the opt 3 done years ago and
> like
> > that very much.
> >
> > Don
> >
> > Sent from my Nexus 7
> > On Aug 3, 2013 5:28 PM, "Paul Kraemer" <elespe@lisco.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Don
> >> I just got my kit too!
> >> Not the greatest instructions are they? And, it appears the schematic
> >> is
> >> not quite correct on the original board---but I digress
> >> The center of the coax goes to the used to be capacitor pad farther from
> >> the rear edge of the board. The routing is to the micro and the divider
> >> circuit
> >> The shield of the coax goes to ground altho they do not say where. I am
> >> using an adjacent long resistor leg that is to ground
> >> Also, I am inclined to add a ground wire to the vacant pin of the two
> >> pin
> >> connector of the TCXO board so it doesn't rely on the signal coax shield
> >> and mechanical connection to ground
> >> Pity seems to me they didn't invest 15 minutes of engineering to make
> >> this
> >> board plug in to the logic board by a few well placed pins in the
> >> connection points
> >> My crystal oven burned to crisp and shorted the 12v to ground. How did
> >> yours fail, or just upgrading?
> >> Paul K0UYA
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Scippa" <dscippa@gmail.com>
> >> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> >> Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 2:24 PM
> >> Subject: [TenTec] TCXO install
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>> New to the list. Just about to install the TCXO kit in the Omni 6 but
> >>> the
> >>> instructions seem a bit unclear.
> >>> It says to remove the cap(I assume this is C10) and connect the coax.
> >>> What they failed to mention was where
> >>> the two leads get connected(center and shield). I could take out the
> >>> whole board to trace it out but I thought
> >>> I would ask here and save myself a lot of work.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance
> >>>
> >>> Don
> >>> K8EAA
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