I have posted this a few times: the sub receiver on my Orion 1 has been dead
most of its life. A couple of trips to Ten Tec, works for a week or two then
dead. Last time it worked was at least 3 years ago.
Done the ribbon cable song and dance and checked for loose connectors etc.
Still a no go. All I get is a hissing sound but no audio.
Mike
W8TRN
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From: "denton sprague" <denton@oregontrail.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 11:59
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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