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Re: [TenTec] Omni VI+ calibration

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VI+ calibration
From: Steve Ellington <steven4lq@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 19:20:24 -0500
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For the calibration to be off equally in all 4 modes, usb, lsb rtty and cw,
4 bfo  trimmers would need to be set equally incorrect.


On Dec 21, 2016 7:05 PM, "Jim Allen" <jim.allen@longhornband.net> wrote:

> That was done very recently and apparently disturbed in shipping.  I am
> not sure I have the facilities to do it myself.
>
> 73 Jim Allen W6OGC
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Dec 21, 2016, at 03:32, Harald Rester <harryrester@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > Jim, did you check the BFO alignment as well? Procedure for calibration
> starts there and you have to readjust the different trimmers several times.
> As I remember, TCXO calibration is the last step.
> >
> > 73, Harry, DH1NBE
> >
> >
> >> Am 21.12.2016 um 00:56 schrieb Jim Allen:
> >> I am in the process of checking calibration on this Omni VI+.
> >>
> >> When I zero beat WWV 10 MHz. the dial shows 9998.89.
> >>
> >> I put the radio in CW, and use a iPhone app, PANOTUNER which is used to
> >> tune musical instruments and believed to be accurate within a hertz or
> so,
> >> to set the zero tone to 700 Hz. which is what my sidetone is set for and
> >> which is what the PANOTUNER shows it to be.
> >>
> >> The mystery is that the adjustment of what I think is the TCXO at the
> back
> >> of the logic board, only moves the frequency a hundred hertz or so, not
> >> enough to be able to zero with the readout at 10000.00.
> >>
> >> I have found the wiki on this, and some archival discussion from several
> >> years back, and the process seems straight forward.  It's just not
> working
> >> as expected.
> >>
> >> Any ideas what I am missing, or what isn't right, here.
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >> 73 Jim Allen W6OGC
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