Is it my imagination or are we beginning to reach the limit of the design life
for Orions? All of a sudden it seems that the number of emails from people
having strange problems with Orions has increased dramatically. There sure
seems to be a lot of dead Orions sitting on work benches wanting for scavenged
boards (including mine).
Art N4UC
> From: denton@oregontrail.net
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 10:59:30 -0800
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion sub receiver getting no signals
>
> yet another follow up…
> lately been noticing that the sub receiver is deaf until the rig warms
> up…then have to go to 20 meters via sub receiver, switch between sub rx
> buttons, listen for hash on the VFO A sub receiver setting, go back to VFO B
> sub rx button then reboot the rig…..
> then the sub receiver will operate normally.
> still feels like connector corrosion problems.
> will probably open up the rig, clean and re-seat the cables and connectors in
> a couple of months if don’t sell the rig.
> Have an Orion II coming in a couple of days, so my time will be tied up with
> it.
>
> > On Oct 21, 2015, at 11:01 AM, denton sprague <denton@oregontrail.net> wrote:
> >
> > well…shoot..
> > that lasted all of 1/2 hour!
> > The past week or so, I has been inoperative on boot up…
> > and it boots up with swishing noise that repeats itself or it seems to work
> > but can’t her anything but background (processor) noise, or receive sigs
> > are way down in the background.
> > So for the time being it will be designated back up rig in the closet…and
> > will run my omni 7 for the duration.
> > I also have a chance ti purchase an unknown condition orion sub receiver
> > board but not too sure want to mess with that.
> > I seems to be something that is not letting the sub receiver board connect
> > to the rest of the system correctly..
> > I have not yet done much in the way of diagnostics…but will take some time
> > this fall to pull the sub receive board and see if anything amiss…cold
> > solder joints, etc, clean contacts and trace down cabling.
> >
> > On Oct 12, 2015, at 9:07 AM, denton sprague <denton@oregontrail.net> wrote:
> >
> >> a little followup..
> >> sub rx was inoperable this am…booted up with sub rx on ant 1 and vfo b
> >> enabled yesterday.
> >>
> >> after letting the rig on for about 3 hours, I rebooted the rig with sub rx
> >> off on the ant and vfo buttons.
> >>
> >> after reboot, enabled sub rx on vfo b and ant 1 buttons. Sub rx now works
> >> normally….
> >>
> >> On Oct 11, 2015, at 11:27 AM, denton sprague <denton@oregontrail.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> thanks…apparently that was it om!!
> >>> On Oct 11, 2015, at 11:13 AM, Tim Wininger <ky5rtim@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Need both SUB RX VFO and Ant1 SUB RX depressed.
> >>>>
> >>>> That's how I use this sub rcvr hr. Hope it's just that.
> >>>>
> >>>> GD Tim, AB4B
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:01 PM, denton sprague <denton@oregontrail.net>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi all…my trusty Orion that came back from TT for processor board
> >>>>> replacement a few months ago seems to have no receive signals…this
> >>>>> happened this am when booting up the rig.
> >>>>> I use ant 1 as main rx/tx as well as sub rx.
> >>>>> I can hear the sub noise come up when pressing the sub rx button, but
> >>>>> evidently getting no signals from the antenna.
> >>>>> I have only one hf antenna.
> >>>>> Did a master reset to no avail.
> >>>>> loose cable maybe??
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